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ShareAhmedabad: After Chandkheda, its now Vejalpur's senior citizens' turn to gird their loins, almost literally. A gang comprising young girls, boys and a mastermind has been on the prowl in the area, pouncing on lonely elderly men, luring them with sexual incentives,
before blackmailing them.
In one such incident that occurred on Sunday at 8:45 pm, one Ramesh Chandra Sharab, 62, a retired bank manager and resident of Nilharsh apartment at Anjali circle in Vasna, was waylaid by members of the gang while he was coming out of the Dharnidhar derasar. According to his complaint, Sharab met a 50-year-old woman, who introduced herself as Jaya Patel. Refusing his request to accompany him to a nearby garden, Patel instead took him to her house at Shantinath apartment near Vejalpur police station.
While proceeding to her house in a rickshaw, the duo's conversation veered towards their individual sex lives, when Patel kissed him and also said that she can also provide him a younger girl of 25 years, who would satisfy his carnal desires. She also called for a girl, Deepika, a 25-year-old married woman.
When Deepika and Sharab got sexually involved in the house, Patel disappeared from the scene. Later, there was a knock on the door when three boys entered the room and started taking video clips of the girl kissing Sharab. They then abused Sharab for indulging in sex with a girl of his daughter's age and tookcash and a gold chain worth Rs31,000.
The gang asked Sharab to pay Rs1 lakh if he wanted to maintain a clean image in society. They also told him that they would give him a call on November 2 for the money. One of them called Sharab on November 1 asking him for the money. Sharab panicked. The gang asked him to pay the money in installments of Rs50,000 separately. Sharab consulted his son, and the duo approached ACP VR Tolia on Monday.
Sharab received another call from the woman on his phone, while they were at the police station. Tolia asked Vejalpur PSI BR Mackwana to accompany Sharab to Shantinath apartment, where they arrested Deepika and her husband Manish, 25, Nishith, Paresh Patel, (Jaya's son) and Jaya Patel.Police seized Sharab's PAN card and ID card and recovered the cash from them.
"Though so far four cases have been committed by the gang, it was difficult to trace the gang as people refrained from coming out in public. We are investigatingthe four cases," said Mackwana.
Two months ago a similar incident had occurred in Chandkheda, where a senior citizen was accosted during morning walk. Based on his complaint registered with the police, a gang comprising two cops was busted.
