Hanumanganj police have arrested 6 interstate gang members for cheating old ladies; the gang carried out 17 incidents in the three states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar.
The accused cheated the victims in Police Station Hanumanganj in Bhopal, Police Station Pardeshipura, M.I.G., Tukoganj, M.G.Road in Indore and cheated jewelry from the victims.
The accused have committed 11 incidents in Patna, Hajipur, Danapur, Chhapra, Rajendra Nagar in Bihar and 12 incidents in Noida in Uttar Pradesh in the month of December 2022.
The accused used to carry out the incident by luring a bundle of paper wrapped in cloth as a stack of money. By giving the allurement of more money than the cost of the jewellery, they used to cheat the jewelery from the victim.
Before committing the incident, in the name of selling clothes, old women were targeted by doing recce on the pretext of selling clothes in different crowded places. A special team was formed and arrested the gang. The 6 members of the inter-state gang were caught in Dewas.
Mangalsutra, chain, ring, ear-rings, ear-rings, pendant, anklet worth Rs 6,00,000, which were looted by fraud in the incidents on the road, have been recovered. Hanumanganj police team would be rewarded with a cash prize of Rs 30,000.
The accused used to send the youngest member of the gang to the woman on the pretext of asking her the way and the other members of the gang also used to reach around the woman during that time.
By telling the story of giving, they used to ask for money in exchange for the valuables(paper bundles wrapped in cloth). Sometimes during the incident, the gang members used to give drugs mixed with water to the women.
The accused were identified as Lal Solanki alias Bhagwandas (27), Shiva Solanki (21), Sanju Solanki, Rahul alias Rohit Debu Solanki and Gopal Parmar. All accused are residents of Delhi.