AHMEDABAD: A Gandhinagar resident filed a police complaint against the family members of a man who died during mucormycosis treatment after he neither cured her husband of his illness nor got Canada visas for her children as promised.
Usha Soni
, 46, a resident of Vedika Valley Society in Randesan, had paid accused Kanti
Parmar
Rs 27 lakh for the purpose. In her complaint with Infocity police, she said that she met Parmar in 2019 during a visit to a temple in Gandhinagar. Parmar had introduced himself as a tantrik. She told him that her husband had been bedridden since an accident in 2011. He told her that he could perform some rituals and cure him completely.
Parmar later made several visits to her house on the pretext of treating her husband. In August 2019, she told him that she wanted to send her children Jenil and
Urvi
to Canada for higher studies. On hearing this, he told her that he was also a visa agent and could help her if she paid Rs 27 lakh.
He then introduced Soni to his son
Jigar
Parmar and wife Shelvi and told her that they assisted him in the visa-related work. Convinced, she paid Rs 27 lakh in instalments to Parmar between October 2019 and March 2020.