Pune: Pune police today said as the officials of Maple Group, accused of cheating people with misleading advertisement of an ultra-cheap housing project, were "not cooperating", the investigating officer had been asked to decide on making arrests based on the evidence.

Forty persons who had registered for the project have now approached the police with complaints, while the company today claimed it had refunded registration fee of 13,500 applicants. But police claimed that only 1,200 applicants had got their money back.