A city-based chartered accountant, who had earlier gone viral on social media as “30 ml professor”, was arrested by Raipur police on Wednesday in a Rs 1-crore coaching class fraud. The accused Dhaval Purohit allegedly took fees from CA and CS students on behalf of a coaching centre but did not deposit the same with the centre. Police earlier in November arrested his accomplice Abhinandan Bafna from Raipur.

The complainant, Jitendra Shah, is a managing director of JK Coaching Classes which specialises in CA and CS courses and has more than 52 branches across the country. Police officers said the fraud took place between January 2019 and November 2020 in Raipur, after the coaching centre opened a new branch there. Bafna was posted as the in-charge while Purohit worked as the mediator between Bafna and Shah.