AHMEDABAD: City crime branch on Saturday nabbed two men who usually duped persons whose relatives were admitted in hospital in the garb of doubling their money using special tantric rituals.
The accused were identified as Ismail Patel, 67, resident of Maninagar, and Zaheer Ahmed Rajpur alias China Bapu,70, from
Bapunagar
.
Crime branch cops said that the two men had on Friday duped a man of Rs 10,000 when he came to a hospital in Memnagar for treatment of his relatives from Rajasthan.
Police said that they got an input that the accused were roaming in the Jamalpur area in an autorickshaw after which they were nabbed.
Crime branch cops said that the two accused used to roam around hospitals and would approach relatives of patients in the garb of asking them some address. When the person would try to help them, they told him or her that they have special tantric powers using which they can double anyone’s money.
If a person was lured, they would offer him papers cut according to size of currency notes concealed in an envelop or handkerchief. They would then take money from the person and flee, said cops.
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