Fake cops on free run rob senior citizens

The three other cases had taken place on Tuesday. Two unidentified men approached Nilima Chavan (63) at M G Road in Camp when she was returning home after getting her eyes checked at a clinic around 1 pm on Tuesday and told her they were policemen in plainclothes. They informed her a murder had taken place nearby and she should keep her gold chain inside her purse as a precaution. While Chavan was doing so,they made away with her chain worth Rs 40,000. She has lodged a complaint with Cantonment police. Sub-inspector K S Chavan is probing the case. Police have drawn sketches of suspects based on Chavan’s description of them.

On Tuesday,two men on motorcycle had,in a similar fashion,robbed 65-year-old Sahdev Ramchandra Bechavre of Anand Nagar,on Bibvewadi-Kondhwa Road. He was walking home after dumping garbage in a bin,when fake policemen cheated him and made away with his gold chain and four gold rings worth Rs 35,000. He lodged a complaint at Swargate.

Teja D’Souza of Ramwadi lost her gold chain worth Rs 35,000 to to such imposters on Tuesday. Two men claiming to be cops told the 67-year-old that checking was on as a murder had taken place and asked her to wrap her chain in a handkerchief. Sub-inspector S S Admuthe,Yerwada police,is investigating her case.