JAMMU, Dec. 30 -- The crime branch Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against a resident of Maharashtra for allegedly cheating a Jammu-based businessman of Rs.1.70 crore on the pretext of supplying food grains in 2019, an official said.

The accused was identified as Parvin Kumar Ninawe of Nagpur in Maharashtra. He was booked in a case FIR number 45/2019 under Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code.

He had cheated and duped Suresh Gupta, proprietor of Shona Trust Corporation of Rs.1.70 crore.

"The complainant made payment of Rs.3.11 crore to the accused from time-to-time but the latter supplied food grains worth Rs.1.41 crore to him and the remaining amount was neither returned nor any food grains were sup...