India, July 16 -- A 42-year-old Parsi Colony resident cheated a 41-year-old woman he knew from his school days to the tune of Rs.1.25 crore by pretending to be the vice president of a leading software company. The Shivaji Park police booked him for cheating and criminal breach of trust on Monday.

The accused is identified as Sandeep Dhanawade, a resident of Dadar, Parsi Colony. The complainant, Deepika Patil, was Dhanawade's classmate in school. She is also friends with his sister. As a Chembur resident working in an Information Technology firm, Patil was keen on buying a flat in Mumbai.

In 2019, when she met Dhanawade, he pretended to be the vice president of a leading IT firm with an income of Rs.6 lakh per month. He told her that the...