Mangalore: Gift Shop Owner Goes Missing Keeping Customers on Tenterhooks

Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RS) 

Mangalore, Feb. 7: Ullal area remained tensed for a while on Saturday February 7 morning after a promoter of a gift scheme and owner of Nadana Home Needs in Ullal suddenly disappeared shutting his shop.  People said that the shopkeeper has gone missing without delivering gifts for which he had collected money. Locals have now lodged a complaint with the Ullal police in this regard.

About 40 residents of Ullal and surrounding places complained to Ullal police station that Padmanab, who reportedly hails from Tamil Nadu, has gone missing after swindling their money. He had started a business of household utensils which had subsequently attracted a number of women. Padmanab had initiated a scheme through which people could buy utensils and other household articles from his shop.

It is about three months since he started his business. People said that he had been very cooperative and ran business without any problem. He was prompt in distributing the scheme gifts. He was able to attract more customers since he sold things at cheaper rates and was giving them more discount on retail price. However, now all of a sudden he has disappeared and he is not even available on his cell phone.

On finding his shop closed on Friday morning, locals gathered on the spot. Though some of them planned to break open the shutter, police intervened and managed to control the crowd.
      
They claimed that Padmanab has cheated them to the tune of Rs 2.5 lac.

Ullal police have meanwhile informed that they are trying to locate Padmanab. The police at the same did not rule out the possibility of Padmanab going to his native Tamil Nadu.