pune a kondhwa resident was arrested by the wanowrie police on friday for allegedly cheating a citybased travel agency by purchasing air tickets in bulk and later defaulting on the payment manish sushil razdan 26 of kondhwa khurd was arrested on a complaint filed by travel agency owner sushil inder kalyani 36 of jagtap chowk in wanowrie according to the police razdan pretended to be a pilot with a private airline and purchased air tickets worth rs 69890 under the fictitious name of ranbir chaudhary from the travel agency between june 30 and july 8 this year however his cheque was dishonoured due to insufficient balancethe police produced razdan before the pune cantonment asking that he be remanded in police custody for seven days assistant public prosecutor b r patil told the court that razdan needed to be interrogated to determine why and for whom he had bought the tickets he said that razdan had used the same modus operandi to dupe several travel agenciesthe defence argued that razdan could only be charged for committing an offence of cheque bounce under section 138 of the negotiable instruments act it asked that razdan be sent to magisterial custodyhowever the court upheld the prosecutions plea and sent razdan to police custody till july 26