Daijiworld Media Network - Hassan (SP)
Hassan, Oct 30: Three persons from the town went to New Delhi with the hope of making a profitable deal of buying a second hand car. They then had no idea that the fraudsters had other plans for them.
Nandakumar, resident of Visveshvaraya Extension here, his son, Neel Kumar and nephew, Vikram, were taken for a ride by the robbers. They lost Rs 70,000 in cash, gold chain worth over two lac rupees, four cellphones and clothes.
Nandakumar was planning to acquire a car. When he was checking an app, he found that a second hand Toyota Fortuner car worth Rs 18 lac was available for sale for mere six to seven lac rupees. He wanted to strike a profitable deal. When he contacted the cellphone number given therein, the person who received the call said that that the said car had been bought by him when in Bengaluru. He said that although the car bears Bengaluru registration number, it is currently at New Delhi, duly asking Nandakumar to come to New Delhi to buy it. Nandakumar and his son checked online and found that the car's documents were in order till 2016.
As the caller had asked him to fly to New Delhi, and allowed him to deduct flight charges out of the car's sale proceeds, Nandakumar, Neel Kumar and Vikram travelled to New Delhi by flight. After reaching New Delhi airport, they contacted the man posing as owner, who asked them to reach HPR Chowk as his driver failed to appear for work, duly promising to pick them up from there. Once they reached the Chowk, another person introduced a person as the driver, who was instructed to take them to a specific spot. When the driver took them through a maze of unending roads and reached a place named Tikri next to Haryaya border in the evening, five persons seated in a Scorpio vehicle and four others in two motor bikes intercepted them. They were threatened at gunpoint and robbed of their possessions. As the robbers sighted a tractor coming from a distance, they left the trio there and went away.
A villager offered Rs 500 to the three who had become penniless by then. They then reached Punana police station in Tikri and explained their travails to the police officers. A police officer handed them Rs 2,000 to return home, duly promising to act against the robbers. They returned to Bengaluru by t rain and then by bus to Hassan.
Nandakumar says that the person who cheated them is available on phone even now but he keeps telling them that they cannot do any harm to him, as he is a professional in this kind of robbery. He feels that the robbers may be having the support of local police. He added that he has decided to complain to inspector general of police in Haryana and New Delhi besides filing complaint in cyber crime police station.