TEAM HERALD
PONDA: Ponda Police on Sunday arrested a 36-year-old contractor from Haveri-Karnataka on charges of cheating a Marcaim resident.
According to Ponda Police, Krishna Naik complained that the accused, Yellapa Patil, residing at Kundaim, in March this year cheated him to the tune of Rs 1 lakh.
Police further informed that the accused had undertaken house construction work of the complainant. After the house was constructed, the complainant sought help of the accused to resell the unused iron rods.
Police informed that the accused managed to sell the material, but failed to pay the amount to Naik and the accused was untraceable.
However, Patil was sighted at Kundaim on Sunday and Naik himself brought the accused to the police station, Patil was later arrested and police is investigating the case.
