Maharashtra Guy Cheats Shopkeepers Throughout Towns Through Calling In Woman’s Voice, Arrested
The accused cheated shopkeepers in Thane, Palghar, Mumbai, Nashik and Pune (Representational)
Thane:
Police have arrested a person from Nalasopara in Maharashtra’s Palghar district for allegedly dishonest a number of shopkeepers of 1000’s of rupees through making telephone calls in a lady’s voice to hunt alternate for a Rs 2,000 foreign money be aware, an authentic mentioned on Saturday.
The accused, 40-year-old Manish Ambekar, was once arrested on Friday, spokesperson of Mira Bhayandar and Vasai-Virar police commissionerate Tukaram Tatkar mentioned.
A number of offences were registered in opposition to the accused for dishonest traders and shopkeepers at other puts in Thane, Palghar, Mumbai, Nashik and Pune districts, he mentioned.
“The accused used to focus on common retail outlets, clinical retail outlets, jewellers and wholesale grain traders. He would name them in a lady’s voice and inform them that she was once calling from a sanatorium or a area positioned with reference to their store,” he mentioned.
“The accused would then order positive issues from their retail outlets and say that they will have to ship alternate for a Rs 2,000 foreign money be aware. He would then wait on the front of constructions and when the supply guy arrived, he used to inform that he was once there on behalf of the ‘girl who referred to as’,” Mr Tatkar added.
“He would then take the foreign money notes of smaller denomination from the supply guy announcing he would get the Rs 2,000 be aware from the girl. Alternatively, after gathering cash, he would disappear from the scene,” he added.
Just lately, a an identical incident had came about in Nalasopara and an offence of dishonest was once registered.
Right through the probe, police were given a tip-off that the accused taken with that offence was once coming to his place of abode in Nalasopara. Accordingly, a lure was once laid and he was once arrested.
“Right through the raid, police recovered Rs 1.60 lakh money from the accused,” he mentioned.
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