Posing as vigilance officers, 5 men dupe trader of Rs 25 lakh citing poll code breach
1 month, 1 week ago

Posing as vigilance officers, 5 men dupe trader of Rs 25 lakh citing poll code breach

Deccan Chronicle  

Pune: Five men allegedly cheated a businessman of over Rs 25 lakh in Maharashtra's Kolhapur by posing as vigilance officers and citing violation of the election code of conduct by him for carrying cash, police said on Wednesday. "As soon as the victim, who is a swing trader, alighted from a private bus on a highway near Kolhapur early Tuesday morning, a man approached him and introduced himself as a vigilance officer. When the victim told him that he had cash with him, the stranger said it was prohibited under the election code of conduct," inspector Deepak Jadhav of the Gandhinagar police station in Kolhapur said. They eventually dropped him at Sarnobatwadi, fleeing with Rs 25.50 lakh in cash and his mobile phone, he said.

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