Husband and girlfriend use wife's identity to forge papers and mortgage her Goregaon flat, duping two banks of Rs 20 lakh and Rs 50 lakh respectively
Husband and girlfriend use wife's identity to forge papers and mortgage her Goregaon flat, duping two banks of Rs 20 lakh and Rs 50 lakh respectively
When Arya left her abusive husband Salil Amrute (33) four years ago, she probablyu00a0 thought she would never have to deal with him again. But on Saturday, she got her husband and his live-in girlfriend arrested for using her identity and mortgaging her flat. According to policemen at the Goregaon police station, Amrute, who works as a music director for Marathi films, has been involved with Soniya Gupta (37), a beauty parlour owner, for the last five years. Upset over Amrute's extra-marital relationship and his abusive ways, Arya left her husband to live with her parents in Nagpur in 2007.
The accused Salil Amrute
However, it was revealed that for the last six months, Amrute and his girlfriend had been forging documents and using Arya's identity to acquire loans from banks. They had have even mortgaged Arya's flat in Goregaon West.u00a0According to the police, Arya recently received a letter from a bank asking for pending EMIs that she had to pay up. On enquiring, Arya found that her husband had taken a loan from a Malad-based bank using her name, but the pictures produced were that of Gupta's. 
Soniya Gupta
She registered a complaint with the police, who discovered that the duo had first taken a loan of Rs 20 lakh from Jan Kalyan Bank in Chembur, mortgaging Arya's flat. Later, they took a Rs 50 lakh loan from New India Cooperative bank in Malad, using Arya's flat once again. This time, they asked the Malad bank to pay Rs 20 lakh to the Jan Kalyan bank, and hand over the remaining Rs 30 lakh to them, as the flat was worth Rs 50 lakh. The police are also investigating the role of the banks, surprised that loans of such large amounts were sanctioned on the basis of forged documents. 
Arya
Assistant Police Inspector Sudhakar Humbe from Goregaon police station said, "On Friday, we traced their calls to a location in Marve, Malad West. They were living in a rented apartment." The duo has been arrested for forgery and cheating.u00a0According to Arya, the two should remain behind bars. "I realised what had happened only after receiving a bank letter. Soniya has ruined my life, and now both should be behind bars."
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