Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Jan 28: A person who used to pose like an ultra-rich customer and visit cooperative institutions where he pledged spurious gold ornaments and cheated them to the extent of lacs of rupees stands arrested.

The accused Girish Kumar (32) is a resident of Kayaokad House in Berike in the taluk. Two days back, he had arrived in a car bearing Kerala registration number and visited a few cooperative banks in Uppinangady. There, he projected himself as a dignitary, convinced the staff that he was in a tearing hurry and could not wait for the arrival of jewel appraiser to evaluate the ornaments. He handed over fake jewellery which weighed and looked like genuine gold. As he was in a hurry, the staff gave him loan against the pledge of these ornaments.

When he approached another cooperative institution at Uppinangady, the staff realized his fraud. However, he escaped before he could be nabbed. Two cooperative institutions thereafter filed written complaints in the police station at Uppinangady of cheating. Cases were registered, and Uppinangady police sub-inspector Eraiah D N and staff arrested the accused and produced him in the court. The court has entrusted him to police custody for interrogation. The police suspect that he would have cheated many other cooperatives in similar fashion.