The MP police have booked two private firms and five persons including a woman for duping a computer vendor to the tune of Rs 4.5 crore by not paying for goods provided by victim.

The complainant Prakash Gupta who owns a BootCom computer and computer accessories store in MP Nagar have provided computer and computer accessories to the accused for long and for the past few months the accused defaulted on payment and later provided cheque which got dishonored.

Victim has lodged complaint with the MP Nagar police but no action was taken and later victim filed case with court in which it was found that the claims made by the victim were true. Court ordered MP Nagar police to register FIR against the accused who have failed to make payments.

The victim has provided computer and computer accessories to Latest Devices Private Limited operated by Bhupendra Singh, Rashi Singh, Hari Singh while another computer and computer accessories were also provided to Ravi Wadhwani and Manish Wadhwani. The two parties had ordered computer and computer accessories worth Rs 4.5 crore and later failed to make payment.

The provided cheques which were dishonored and later they provided account details stating that the payments have been made but they were found to be fake and were cooked.

The police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and started further investigation. Accused are yet to be quizzed and police said that the five accused would be questioned in the further investigation.