He had allegedly taken a loan of Rs.10 crore from a finance company in the name of these workers.

The workers learnt this when they received notices from the finance company ordering them to pay up and complained to the local police last month, Kale said.

They said Patil had cheated the workers by allegedly taking their signatures on blank papers for getting them jobs in the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC).

Patil is engaged as a contractor with the NMC and provides vehicles to collect garbage from all over the city.

The matter of cheating the Dalit workers came under the purview of the National Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Commission, headed by Buta Singh who had ordered the police to book Patil under the SC/SC Atrocities Act.