Ludhiana, Feb. 12 -- Posing as government officials from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, fraudsters duped the owner of a Ludhiana-based firm of Rs.1.38 crore on the pretext of helping him in securing a tender of supplying bicycles to the three states. When the owner found that he had been duped, he filed a complaint.

The Focal Point police lodged an FIR against the accused and initiated investigation.

The FIR has been lodged following the statement of Sachin Lakra of SK Cycles, Phase -7, Focal Point. In the complaint Lakra stated that MS Sridharan, Rajashekhra P Milapu Raja, Guddipatti Durga Mahesh and Edar Lane Babu contacted him posing as officials of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, contacted him for supply of bicycles. The accuse...