Man promised Dirhams, handed over bundles of paper in exchange for Rs 9 lakh | Mumbai News
Man promised Dirhams, handed over bundles of paper in exchange for Rs 9 lakh | Mumbai News
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Three persons including two women were booked by the Mumbai Police for allegedly defrauding a 49-year-old supervisor of a private company of nearly Rs 9 lakh on the pretext of providing Dirhams at a lower value. The police said the three accused conspired and instead handed him a bundle of papers and a Rin soap wrapped inside a bag and escaped.
According to the police, the complainant in the case is Ganesh Sonawane and he is employed with a private company and works as a supervisor at LTT railway station.
At around 11.30 am on December 29, a woman who identified herself as Pinky approached him and showed him a note of Dirham. “The woman claimed that she works as a house help and her employer’s son works in Dubai. She also said that the son had handed her some notes of Dirham and she wanted to sell them off,” read the statement of the complainant.
The 49-year-old was further told that she will sell them at a lesser value than the market and asked whether he was interested in buying.
An officer said, “The woman had even handed him an original Dirham note to gain his trust so that he goes and verifies it on its own after which she called him again in the evening and asked him to come and meet her near Santacruz bus depot.”
At Santacruz, Pinky had come with her brother Rahim Shaikh and another woman following which they showed him a bundle of Dirham notes and claimed that the notes were worth 9 lakh.
“At that time I was ready to buy all the notes from them. So, I asked them to give me a day’s time to collect the money. I then went and mortgaged my gold ornaments and took Rs 8.9 lakh behind Santacruz Bus Depot to meet them on Sunday,” read the statement of the 49-year-old complainant.
As per the complaint, the three accused took him to an isolated location and exchanged the money for Dirhams. “The woman handed me a black and blue colour cloth bag and told me that it contained Dubai currency notes following which they escaped and even I left,” the complainant told the police.
The supervisor later opened the bag and noticed that it contained eight notes of Dirhams, a bundle of pieces of paper and a Rin soap. He then consulted with his friends and relatives following which he approached Vakola police station and lodged a complaint.
A case under relevant sections of cheating was registered late on Sunday.
The investigator added that they are trying to trace the suspects with the help of CCTV footage. “We have started scrutinising the CCTV grabs and we will show them to our sources and try to identify them. It should help us in solving the case and we suspect that they must have duped several other people using similar modus operandi,” said an officer.
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