Accused of duping 100 people of several crores, Harshil Patel cheated on his wife too by living with bar girls and splurging large sums on liquor and sex; long run come to an end
Harshil Patel, a partner in Udan Holidays, has cheated over 100 people of at least Rs 5 crore.
But that is not all. He also cheated his wife who works as a sales executive at a car showroom earning a modest salary of Rs 10,000.
While his wife, who lives a house in Naranpura with Harshil’s parents, was working hard to make ends meet, Harshil was living it up with a bar dancer and spending huge sums on liquor and sex.
Vacations in Dubai and Thailand
He has currently been living with a bar dancer, Shweta Raju Singh, at Mira Road in Mumbai, and his social media is awash with his photographs with her. He is unabashed about his relationships and has posted photos with several bar girls. He spent vacations with Shweta in Dubai and Phuket in Thailand and posted photos on Facebook.
According to crime branch officials investigating the cheating complaint against Harshil Patel, who lured people with work permits to Canada, Shweta Singh is not the only bar dancer that he was close to. He had a liking for bar dancers and liquor and squandered a lot of money on a
lavish lifestyle. In Mumbai, he even hired bouncers to add weight to his profile.
For all the money he cheated from people, he had very little when the police caught him. “We have found one bank account with Rs 3 lakh and two other accounts with meagre sums. The rest, he spent to fuel his extravagant lifestyle,” said an official. Every time he felt short of money, he came to Ahmedabad to cheat more people and then return to Mumbai.
“His wife lives in an ordinary apartment. He sends across money once in a while as his parents stay with her. His father had opened an offset printing office at Gurukul. However, Harshil had his eyes on big money.
“For a Class 10 passout, he had quite some skill to lure highly qualified and accomplished people with promises of providing them work permits in Canada. He offered Canadian work permits at a fairly low rate compared to others. He embellished the deal by offering partnership in Subway Hotel, purportedly owned by his cousin Mahendra Patel. In reality, Mahendra is a fictitious name of a person whom he made to speak through a virtual number,” Crime branch PI D B Barad told Mirror.
“Of the more than 100 people he had promised to send abroad, there were only two visas that were stamped and those too turned out to be fake,” Barad said.
His partner Hemal Dave, who had his own clients who were sent to Harshil, was paid a share while he kept the chunk of the money.
Harshil has a scheming mind, is good at luring people and blew up all his money on liquor and bar girls.