Conman arrested for duping cab driver

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The Magadi Road police arrested a man after he allegedly duped a cab driver of Rs 10,500 by handing over a fake currency in return for his online payment.

As per the complaint, the police identified the accused as Sanjay. The victim, Chandrashekhar, claimed that Sanjay posed as a Unani doctor.

It was learnt that Sanjay had booked a cab from Bengaluru to reach Kadiri city in Andhra Pradesh and on the way asked the driver, Chandrashekhar, to stop at a hotel for dinner.

While having dinner, he told the victim that he needed to send money to someone urgently but he has only cash. Upon his request, the victim transferred Rs 10,000 to his account and received the cash from Sanjay.

Unbeknownst to the victim, the number to which Chandrashekhar paid the money belonged to the hotel staff.

The accused went to the cashier and showed the transaction and got the cash from him. He escaped without even paying the bill of the food and even took the mobile phone of the driver.

The victim waited for a long time before approaching the police. Based on the complaint, a police team tracked down the accused and arrested him from his house at Tambaram in Chennai.

The police recovered 21 fake notes of Rs 500 denomination and nine mobile phones worth Rs 90,000 from him.

The police said that the accused had allegedly confessed to have cheated many people using similar modus operandi and had a cheating case pending in Siddapura police station in the city.