Four miscreants who duped a man of Rs 8.80 lakh were nabbed by the Bhopal’s crime branch and MP Nagar police on Friday in the State capital.
According to the police, Prakash Narvare of Shahjehanabad visited Bhopal’s crime branch and enquired about Chironji and Iqbal but was shocked to find out that the two police personnel who were present at the crime branch were not the same people who have duped him of Rs 8.80 lakh in the name of doubling the money.
The victim said that he had given Shaheed and Sabir a sum of around Rs 8.80 lakh during the period from March 2013-December 2013 on the pretext of doubling the money but they never provided the multiplied amount and when he demanded the money they told him to visit Bhopal’s crime branch where the money would be delivered.
On the receipt of the information the crime branch personnel acted swiftly and nabbed one of the miscreants from Bhopal Haat and later after he was questioned, other three accomplices were nabbed.
The nabbed accused were identified as Haneef and Faheem. Haneef introduced himself as a crime branch official and assured that the four miscreants would return the money and he has to meet crime branch for the same.
When the two were questioned they confessed to the crime and confirmed that they assured the victim that they could facilitate the refund from Shaheed (Fathehpur), Sabir Ali (Bhanpur), Sannawar and Raqeeb (Nishatpura).
Haneef who was posing as crime branch official works as a scrap dealer, Shahid works as a fisherman, Sabir Ali is a truck driver and Raqeeb works as a labourer.
The victim has given around Rs three lakh to Sannawar, Rs two lakh to Rakeeb, Rs two lakh to Shahid and Rs 1.80 lakh to Sabir in the period of March 2013 to December 2013. Sannawar is still missing police have started search for the missing miscreant.