Ludhiana, March 25 -- The Sarabha Nagar police have booked a Chandigarh resident and his nine aides, for allegedly duping a Ludhiana-based real estate company of a whopping Rs. 7.61 crore in a land investment deal in Mohali.

The accused has been identified as Meetinder Singh Mann, a resident of Sector 28, Chandigarh and his aides Daljit Singh, Kasturi Lal, Harmeet Singh, Rajwant Kaur, Kuldeep Kaur, Surinder Kaur, Harpreet Kaur, Manjit Kaur and Gurdeep Kaur, said police.

The case was lodged based on a complaint filed by Pardeep Kumar of Janpath Vila of Jhammat village, an authorised representative of a real estate and infrastructure development company headquartered in Ludhiana. According to the complaint, the company had been looking to...