pune the kothrud police on sunday booked a 24yearold man for allegedly duping a navi mumbaibased real estate agent of rs 262 lakh on the pretext of organizing a charity show in pune to raise money for landslidehit malin villagers a complaint has been registered by upnes satyanarayan thakur 47 of kamothe in navi mumbai with the kothrud police station j a more assistant inspector of the kothrud police station who is investigating the case told toi that thakurs son is studying in a punebased private engineering college in july last year the suspect along with a woman came to thakurs house and claimed that he was studying in the same college as thakurs son the suspect then told thakur that he also owns an event management company in pune and would like to organize a charity show for malin villagers he added more said the suspect showed some documents related to the event to thakur and told him that the event would be organized at koregaon park on august 24 2014 on august 1 thakur came to pune and met the suspect at chandani chowk he also visited koregaon park more said adding that thakur agreed to give the suspect rs 262 lakh thereafter the suspect claimed that he would earn rs 50 lakh from the event and would return thakurs money he also promised thakur that he would cut his expenses and hand over the remaining amount to malin villagers more said following the dialogue between the two an agreement was made on august 2 thakur gave cheque of rs 1 lakh to the suspect and deposited rs 162 lakh in the suspects bank account however when thakur visited koregaon park on august 24 2014 he found that there was no such event happening at the venue more said when thakur approached the suspect he was told that the event has been postponed due to some unavoidable circumstances more said when thakur demanded his money back the suspect threatened to kill him and his family members he added