Police have registered a case against a couple for allegedly cheating a 48-year-old businessman of Rs 21 lakh by promising him a petrol pump dealership in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai township, an official said on Thursday.

The businessman, based in Kalyan in Thane district, runs an LPG distribution agency in Uttar Pradesh, reported PTI.

The couple, residing in Wagle Estate, Thane city, approached him between June 2019 and November 2021 with an offer of a petrol pump dealership in Navi Mumbai and demanded Rs 50 lakh for it, the official from Kolsewadi police station said.