Jehangirabad police on Monday nabbed two miscreants involved in fraud, robbery and fake documentation for passport and recovered gold jewellery, 9 mobile phones and 12 SIM cards worth over Rs2 lakh and forged documents used for passport.
According to the police, acting on a tip off, Faiyaz Ali alias Waseem of Kalyan, Mumbai was nabbed from Bhanpur for producing fake documents of address proof with passport application.
The accused produced documents of Bhopal while the accused is a resident Kalyan in Mumbai and has served jail in the year 2011 in Tilak Nagar under Thane district of Maharashtra for robbery. The accused has served a jail term in Kanpur in the year 2008.
During the investigation Faiyaz Ali confirmed his accomplice Fateh Ali who was later detained from Nishatpura area and when the two were questioned they confessed to several crimes of fraud, robbery and thefts.
One of the frauds confessed by the accused was duping a 35-year-old woman of two gold bangles on the pretext of offering prayer from Bairagarh area on May 8.
Among other crimes they have stolen a mobile phone from Nehru Nagar area worth Rs17,800 and another mobile phone from Kolar area.
Providing modus operandi of the miscreants, police said that they used to dupe the victims in the name of doubling their gold Jewellery on the pretext of prayer. Gold Jewellery was stolen from shops posing as customers.
Faiyaz was booked under Arms Acts and was booked fro three cases of robbery in Tilak Nagar Pune while Fateh was booked under NSA, Arms Act, threatening of life and robbery.