Four men stopped delivery boy’s Scooty showing police I-card, flee with the booty.
Four persons posing as policemen intercepted a delivery boy of a firm dealing with foreign exchange on the busy Kamathipura street on Monday evening and decamped with Rs35 lakh cash and a mobile phone.
According to police, the four men stopped the delivery boy’s Scooty at Kamathipura. After showing him police I-cards, one of them removed the cash from the vehicle’s dickey and asked him to sit in an Innova car. Then they took him to Mahul near Chembur where they asked him to alight, said the police.
The police said Anil Sangola (47) was working with Sufana Forex Pvt Ltd, a foreign exchange firm, at Grant Road for the past three years. Sangola was on his way to deliver the money at the firm’s Kamatipura branch in Nagapada when the incident took place. He had kept Rs35 lakh in the dickey of his Scotty (MH-01-XA-3425).
“When he reached Chhota Sonapur Road at Dharma Rathod chowk, four persons, one of them carrying fibre cane and handcuff, intercepted his scooty. One of them hit Sangola’s hand with a cane and told him in Marathi that he (Sangola) was involved in drug trafficking. Later, he took the key of the two-wheeler and Sangola’s mobile phone. He then removed the cash from the dickey and fled on the same Scotty,” said police.
“The accused then asked Sangola to sit in the waiting yellow-coloured Innova car as they wanted him to take to the Anti-Narcotics Cell office in South Mumbai. Believing them as policemen, he sat in the car. But when the car reached Byculla, Sangola suspected a foul play and tried to scream. But the accused threaten to kill him if opens his mouth,” said the police, adding that “when the car reached an isolated place in Mahul at around 6.30pm and the accused asked Sangola get down from the car. The car then zoomed towards Chembur.”
Scared Sangola then contacted his office from a PCO and narrated the incident. His superior told him to lodge a complaint.
“We have registered a case under Sections 392 (robbery), 363 (kidnapping), 170 (posing as policeman) and 420n(cheating) IPC against the four unidentified persons. The conmen were well built and aged between 35 and 40 years and were speaking in Marathi,” said Sanjay Kadam, senior inspector at the Nagpada police station.
Kadam and added that the police will soon prepare the sketches of the four suspected persons based on the descriptions given by the victim.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}