Mangalore: Another robbery - Delhi man tricked, looted of Rs 85,000
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, Jun 7: In yet another case of robbery, that too at a busy area in the city, a man hailing from Delhi was looted of Rs 85,000 by a gang of conmen.
The incident occured at MG Road near PVS junction here on Friday June 7.
Mohammed Afzal, said to be son of an MLA from Delhi, working on a central project at NIT-K on contract, had parked his car near PVS. Another person who was with him got out of the car and went inside a building, while Afzal waited in the car.
While he was waiting for the person to return, a stranger approached Afzal and told him that a currency note had fallen near the car. Afzal got out of the car and began searching for the note, which was indeed lying nearby.
While Afzal's attention was diverted by the currency note planted by the stranger, another man, an accomplice, opened the car door from the other side and stealthily picked up Afzal's briefcase before vanishing into the evening crowd around. The other man also had disappeared by then.
It was after he got back into the car that Afzal realized that his briefcase was missing. The briefcase contained Rs 60,000 in cash and documents, passport, credit/debit cards etc.
A while later, Afzal received an SMS from his bank stating that Rs 25,000 had been debited from his account. Hence, the robbers altogether looted him of Rs 85,000.
Based on Afzal's complaint, Kadri police have registered a case and investigations are on.
The incident comes just a day after two daylight robberies were reported in the city on Thursday June 6, wherein an elderly man and a lady teacher were robbed of their gold in separate incidents. The robbers, in these cases, had posed as police. A similar robbery was reported the same evening in Udupi also.
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