India, Jan. 31 -- A Government Railway Police (GRP) constable was booked on Thursday for allegedly cheating his colleague of Rs.92.5 lakh by orchestrating an elaborate con, promising to repay three times the amount within a short period.

According to the police, the accused persuaded the complainant, Yogesh Adate, 43, a GRP crime branch constable posted in Dadar, to raise money by mortgaging his Dombivli flat, withdrawing his Provident Fund (PF), borrowing from 14 individuals and availing a loan from a police credit society. Adate had known the accused, Ravindra Darekar, his senior colleague in the GRP crime branch, for several years. Darekar claimed that his relatives, Suresh Ghule and Dattatray Mohite, both Pune-based businessmen, oper...