Thane, April 6 A case has been registered against three individuals for allegedly defrauding a woman from Thane city in Maharashtra of Rs 16.35 lakh by promising to get her daughter admitted to a prestigious engineering college, police said on Monday.
Based on a complaint, the Kapurbawdi police registered a first information report (FIR) against the accused, Tashin Khan (40), Saif Khan (42), and a woman identified as Shruti, on April 2, an official said.
The official stated that the victim approached the accused at their office in Kapurbawdi after coming across a newspaper advertisement in June last year regarding admissions to an engineering college in Mumbai.
The trio allegedly promised an engineering seat for her daughter, following which the complainant paid them Rs 16.35 lakh between June and November 2025 in cash and through bank transfers.
The accused also allegedly provided her with a forged fee receipt bearing a fake stamp and signature of the college.
The fraud came to light in November 2025, after the complainant visited the college to collect her daughter's identity card, the official said.
The trio have been booked under sections 316(2) (criminal breach of trust), 318(4) (cheating) and other relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, he said, adding that no arrests have been made.