Overview
- Yerawada police have 34-year-old Adarsh Mhatre in custody in Pune as cases tied to other stations continue.
- The Pune complaint was registered on January 10 after a HR manager said she lost ₹26.5 lakh to a promised real-estate investment.
- Investigators say about ₹21 lakh has been frozen or recovered, with ₹5 lakh returned and the rest traced to a Goa casino account.
- Police say he built trust on matrimonial sites by claiming to be an ISRO scientist, sharing forged Aadhaar and ISRO cards, and using aliases like Swapnil Varule, Hemant Gaykar and Jayesh Patil.
- Cases are registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the IT Act as teams in Navi Mumbai, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Rabale probe similar complaints.