India, June 19 -- A police constable posted with the Motor Transport Department in Navi Mumbai has been booked for allegedly cheating a diamond trader and his son of Rs.15.5 lakh by promising to recover diamonds worth Rs.75 lakh lost in an earlier fraud case. The accused is absconding.

According to the complaint, Sion resident and diamond merchant Suryaji Tukaram Sonawane was allegedly cheated of diamonds worth Rs.1.25 crore by another trader, Ravi Jain, four years ago. An FIR was registered at D.B. Marg police station, and while diamonds worth Rs.50 lakh were recovered, the remaining Rs.75 lakh could not be traced. Jain was later released on bail.

Sonawane alleged that his son, Rupesh, met constable Pravin Kundalkar at the office of th...