Pune: Man arrested for ‘creating fake Facebook profile of actor, cheating woman of Rs 1.4 lakh’

A 25-year-old man from Pimpri was arrested Monday for allegedly creating a fake Facebook profile of an actor and cheating a 27-year-old woman from Ahmednagar of gold ornaments worth Rs 1.4 lakh.

The woman, who is the complainant in this case, believed that between October last year and January this year, she was communicating with the actor Akash Thosar on Facebook, but it was actually a fake profile created by the suspect, Shivtej Netaji Chavan, police said.

Inspector Arun Pardeshi of Cyber Crime Cell of Ahmednagar police said, “Since October last year, the woman had started communicating with a fake profile of Thosar created by Chavan.