pune a sessions court here on friday refused anticipatory bail to two of the three partners in a tours and travel company facing charges of cheating 33 clients to the tune of rs17 lakh by promising them a conducted tour to dubaithe three partners rahul shrihari kale 37 amit nandkumar nivangune 33 and jaymala mahesh shivtare 37 run a tours and travel firm blossom holidays on sinhagad road on april 7 the hadapsar police registered a case for offences punishable under sections 406 criminal breach of trust 420 cheating and 34 common intention of the indian penal code against them on the basis of a complaint lodged by gaurav yashwant tupe one of the 33 affected clientstupe stated in his complaint that the travel firms partners had promised him his relatives and friends of conducting a tour to dubai in december last year and collected rs17 lakh from them but the firm failed to deliver on its promise and the tour never materialized he statedassistant inspector kiran londhe of the hadapsar police said we had issued notices on the day the fir was lodged to all the three partners to join the investigations and cooperate with the investigators kale responded to the notice by presenting himself before the investigators but nivangune and shivtare preferred moving the sessions court for an anticipatory bail we were since pursuing the bail matter in the courtadditional public prosecutor premkumar agarwal had submitted a report on behalf of the police to the additional sessions judge dilip murumkar opposing the anticipatory bail plea of nivangune and shivtare agarwal submitted that the names of the two applicants figured in the fir and two witnesses recorded statements that nivangune had collected money from them at regular intervals for the promised tour of dubaiagarwal submitted that the custodial interrogation of the applicants was necessary for recovering the rs17 lakh and unravelling the entire cheating modus operandi the court upheld these submissions while refusing bail to the two applicants he said