A FIR was registered on the complaint of a Delhi woman against former Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, former Formula 1 racer Michael Schumacher and 11 others for fraud and criminal conspiracy following a court order. She has accused the celebrities of being a part of the fraud through their association and promotion of it.
The complainant, Shafali Agarwal, a resident of Chattarpur Mini Farm in New Delhi, had booked an apartment in a project named after Sharapova. A tower in the project was named after Schumacher, she said. The project was to be completed by 2016 but never took off.
Earlier, she had filed a complaint in a Gurugram court against M/S Realtech Development and Infrastructure (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd, other developers, Sharapova and Schumacher for duping her of around Rs 80 lakh.
“We came to know about the project through advertisements and reached out to the company management after pictures of the project and a lot of false promises were made,” she said. A FIR has been registered under Sections 34 (common intention), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC at the Badshahpur police station.
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