Crime Branch, Bhopal, has nabbed an engineer on Wednesday who duped a 25-year-old girl to the tune of Rs  30 lakh posing as doctor posted with AIIMS. The accused was nabbed from DB Mall in MP Nagar, who cheated the victim using fake details over facebook.

The accused, identified as Ajay Kumar Gaalar, duped the victim posing a doctor with AIIMS and served at Delhi, Jaipur and Bhopal AIIMS.

In his complaint, the victim stated that the accused came into contact after she accepted friend request of the accused over facebook in 2012. The accused used photograph of a handsome youth and posed as doctor with AIIMS. The victim developed relationship and the accused used voice modulator, made voice of female posing his family members and showed that the family members also liked her.

The accused in 2017-19 collected Rs 25 lakh as he was facing family issues. The accused collected a total of Rs 30 lakh after which he stopped all communications with the victim. The victim used to remain depressed and later revealed the family members regarding the issue and when the family members lodged the complaint, it was found that her friend is a fraudster and nabbed the accused.

Police have registered a case under section 419,420 and 506 of the IPC and section 66 D of the IT Act.

Meanwhile, Crime Branch, Bhopal, has nabbed a 38-year-old miscreant from Gautam Nagar who was involved in refilling gas cylinders of commercial cylinders and vehicles running on LPG using domestic LPG cylinders and have recovered 57 domestic LPG cylinders on Wednesday. The accused was identified as Zuber. The police have recovered 57 commercial, domestic and mini-gas cylinders of various gas companies including Hindustan Petroleum, Bharat and Indane, two gas changing pipes, a computerized weighing machines, a gas shifting motor machine and other pieces of equipment from the accused.

A case has been registered against the accused under relevant sections of IPC.