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Alert citizen foils bid to sell fake gold chain

Suspect duped victims of Rs70,000, arrested

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A 30-year-old alert citizen from Dehu Road foiled an alleged conman’s attempt to ‘loot’ someone and also played a role in his arrest. The alleged conman is believed to have duped several people to the tune of lakhs of rupees under the pretext of selling gold chains weighing 2 kg at a nominal amount.

The citizen, Anis Shaikh, who runs a refrigerator repair shop at Dehu Road, nabbed the alleged conman, Ganesh Kumbhar, on Thursday morning when he had gone to con his latest victim.

Anis told dna, “Ganesh and his mother duped one of my relatives, Jalauddin Shaikh, to the tune of Rs70,000 six months ago. At that time, Ganesh had approached Shaikh along with his mother. He told Shaikh that he was working as a driver at an excavation site in Indore where he found a 2-kg gold chain, but wanted to sell it immediately as he was in debt. Thereafter, he took out four gold beads from the chain and gave them to Shaikh to check their authenticity.”

The next day, Ganesh and his mother went to Chapekar Chowk to meet Shaikh at his house. Anis said, “Ganesh and his mother had come to Shaikh’s house and sold the gold chain at Rs70,000 and disappeared. The incident came to light when Shaikh checked the chain at a jeweller’s shop in Chinchwad.”

In September, Ganesh went to Dehu Road and met a stationery shop owner Vicky Agarwal with the same story. Anis said, “Incidentally, my shop is close to Agarwal’s. I told him about the cheating case. So he immediately informed me about his story. Ganesh did not come to meet Agarwal for a month. He came on Thursday to meet him and started by saying that he did not want to sell the chain. Thereafter we nabbed him and handed him over to the police.” 

Police sub-inspector Anil Mohar of Chinchwad police station said, “As of now, no one has lodged a case against him. However, from preliminary information, it appears that he conned several people.”

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