Mangalore : In a major breakthrough a fraud case was filed at the Commissioners office on November 3, Wednesday.
The tenants of a particular apartment in the city have blamed Ibrahim Sheriff, a resident of Harmony Apartments located near Attavar for cheating them. It is said that, the accused has cheated people with the huge amount of Rs 3 crore 6 lac and is now absconding.
The tenants with the leadership of Dakshina Kannada District Committee of Democratic Youth Federation filed complaints against the accused to the Police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh today.
The victims said that they have already registered a FIR in Kankanady police station a few days back and handed over the documents pertaining to their agreements with Ibrahim Sheriff.
With the complaint filed to the commissioner, the tenants said that Ibrahim Sheriff acted as a real estate broker contacted those who were in search of houses for rents. His attitude and talks made the tenants believe him and later he started collecting huge sum of money from them as deposits.
As per the agreement he was suppose to pay the monthly rent to the flat owner. But, later when the tenants got the notice from the owner for not paying the rent from past six month they got the clear picture.
It has been clear that Sheriff is missing with his family since Oct 5 2010. Some victims suspect that he is in Dubai now, while others said he is in hiding within the country.