GURUGRAM: A family was allegedly cheated by a Gurugram-based packers-and-movers firm they had hired for relocating to Kerala from Noida. The firm had assured to deliver the furniture within 10 days but allegedly handed them over a month later only after the police intervened.
According to Linda George, the complainant, they had paid Rs 40,000 to Logistics Movers and Packers in Ashok Vihar to relocate their furniture to Kerala on July 31. While Rs 37,000 was paid on July 31, the balance amount was to be paid on delivery, according to an agreement. The firm, the complainant said, had assured to deliver in 10 days after pickup but failed to do so even a month later. The damaged furniture was finally delivered to the family after they approached the police. Most of the items were damaged and one, they said, was missing.
Police said an FIR has been filed at Sector 5 Gurugram under IPC sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust).
“The accused, one Suresh Kumar, is a fraud. During the probe, we have found that whenever his firm would receive a big order, they would shift the location of their company to somewhere else,” said the investigation officer Kiranpal.
Kumar, police said, had vacated the Gurugram flat out of which his firm was operating and had also not paid rent for few months.
