India, May 18 -- A Gurugram-based businessman and his wife have been booked by the economic offences wing (EOW)-I for allegedly duping a farmer from Hisar of more than Rs.2.36 crore on the pretext of offering franchise rights linked to an international logistics company, police said on Sunday.

The FIR was registered at Sector 65 police station on May 12 under Sections 318(4) (cheating) and 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), and transferred to EOW-I for investigation.

The complainant, a resident of Siswala village in Hisar district, alleged he was persuaded to invest nearly Rs.3 crore in franchise rights of an international courier company covering Hisar, Sirsa, Fatehabad and Bhiwani. He had initially approache...