Couple Held For Cheating Man Of Rs 3.25 Crore For Stanford Seat

The EOW police of Cyberabad arrested two persons, Paladugu Raghuram and Paladugu Sunitha of Madhapur, who were allegedly cheated a Chatla Sanjeev Kumar of Madhapur of Rs 3.25 crore promising admission to UG courses in Stanford University.

The police said that Raghuram was already involved in another cheating case registered in the Kukatpally Police Station.

The police said that Raghuram and his wife Sunitha offered to help Kumar's son get admission into an under-graduate course in Stanford University. In order to cheat Kumar, the couple created fabricated fake admission documents of the university and collected Rs 3.25 crore from him.

As part of this, the couple created a fictitious character named Sumanth and made Kumar believe that Sumanth was working in the White House and would help in getting admission in the university. For this purpose, Raghuram used another SIM and created Whatsapp chats showing him conversing with "Sumanth" for admission.

The couple also made Kumar believe that Raghuram had visited USA and met Sumanth for the admission. In reality Raghuram and Sunitha had gone to Mysore and had WhatsApp conversations Kumar making it appear like he was in the USA and working on the admission process for Kumar's son.

The Cyberabad EOW police advise the public to not believe or approach anybody to get admissions in any university or colleges without knowing them well, and to visit the concerned university for correct information.

The case is being investigated by L Samaram Reddy, Inspector of Police, Economic Offences Wing PS, Cyberabad, under the supervision of K Prasad, DCP, EOW, Cyberabad.