pune a market yardbased businessman was duped of rs 181 crore by five men who promised him help in purchasing 20 acres land close to jaipur in rajasthana complaint was filed with the swargate police on wednesday by ashok goel 38 who owns a farm business and some warehouses in market yard five people have been booked and the case has been transferred to the crime branch considering the gravity of the matterashok goel told the toi on thursday that he had given rs 351 crore to shailendra goel a land developer from nigdi for purchasing the land between november 2009 and july this yeargoel said he knows shailendra since eight years when he was working with one of his friends shailendra later became a land developer in punegoel said that shailendra would always approach him with land proposals but he turned it down every time once shailendra and his friend paresh thakur came up with a proposal of a 20acre land in jaipur which they claimed belonged to one gupta couple the duo promised goel that they can finalise the deal within seven days for rs 351 croregoel liked the plan and deposited the requisite amount rs 351 crore in the bank accounts of sunil gujar mamata gupta and ramprakash guptashailendra failed to give documents of the property and when goel made repeated requests he told goel that the deal cannot be made and repaid rs 17 crore promising to give the remaining amount at the earliest however shailendra never paid the remaining money giving various excuses it was then that goel lodged a police complaint against paresh ganesh thakur shailendra anand goel sunil gujar mamata gupta and ramprakash gupta the suspects have been booked under sections 406 471 420 507 read with 34 of the indian penal code for cheatingadditional commissioner of police anant shinde crime said the crime branch has taken over the investigations from the swargate police as the land deal involved big money which cannot be probed at the police station level inspector ram jadhav of the antidacoity squad is the investigating officer