India, Oct. 15 -- The police have booked seven people, including a woman, for allegedly cheating 16 people to the tune of around Rs.4 crore by promising to secure them Mhada flats meant for mill workers in Dadar East at cheaper rates.

An FIR has been registered based on a complaint lodged by Suresh Shinde, 47, a resident of Kalachowki and the owner of a printing business, who was among those cheated.

"Through his business, Shinde became acquainted with a man called Anil Mane, who runs a real estate agency, Om Enterprises, in Dadar East. Mane told Shinde that he can secure flats allotted to mill workers at Bombay Dyeing Mills in Naigaon, Dadar East, at cheaper rates," said a police officer attached to the Bhoiwada police station.

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