BENGALURU: A few days after former India captain Rahul Dravid lost over Rs 4 crore to a Ponzi scheme run by Vikram Investment Company, another complaint of cheating and breach of trust has been filed by the wife of former India captain Anil Kumble.
Mr Kumble’s wife Ms Chethana has alleged that her PAN card details were misused to purchase two costly watches worth Rs 32.96 lakh and she has blamed a Mumbai-based company.
In her complaint at the Cubbon Park police station, Ms Chethana stated that she had visited Zimson Times in UB City in July 2016 to buy a Franck Muller watch.
As the watch Ms Chethana was interested in buying was out of stock, one of the staffers at the shop told her that he can source it from Time Keepers Watch Boutique in Mumbai.
After she agreed, Ms Chethana was asked to share her PAN card details for the transaction. “I shared my PAN details with Sathya Vageeshwaran, an employee of the shop, and wrote a cheque for Rs 8 lakh, the cost of the watch. I received the watch a few days later, but I was unaware that my PAN details were misused until I discovered it in my income tax return form,” she told the police.
Ms Chethana in her IT Return 26 Form found a transaction of worth Rs 32.96 lakh which she never did. Her auditors, Kincha and Co., advised her to lodge a police complaint following which she filed a complaint against Sathya Vageeshwaran and the employees of Time Keepers Watch Boutique accusing them of cheating her.
Following her complaint, the police have booked the accused under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of IPC. The police are investigating the case.
