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Man shares latest status on WhatsApp, gets robbed of Rs 3.7 crore

According to the police, the victim had posted his travel plans and latest status on social media which helped the gang to monitor him and loot him; police arrested the accused within 48 hours

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In a classic case of why you should be careful about your social media posts, a businessman was robbed of Rs 3.70 crore by a gang of robbers, who kept a tab on the victim's social media status. According to the police, the man had shared his latest travel plans on Whatsapp that was being monitored by a gang of robbers. The victim was eventually intercepted near Daund station in Pune district and the gang looted him at gunpoint and decamped with valuables worth Rs 3.70 crore gold. However, the Pune rural police got into the act and apprehended four suspects within 48 hours of the robbery and cracked the case.

The accused have been identified as Ganesh Dagadu Pawar (27), Abhijeet alias Balu Dilip Chavan (23), both residents of Nagothane in Solapur while Mohsin Hamzekhan Mulani (25) and Pratamesh Vijay Bhambure (26), the other two arrested are residents of Kalfali Ali in Sangli. The incident took place in the wee hours of Wednesday near Daund railway station and the police suspect that the victim, identified as Appa Shreeram Kadam, a resident of Kauthali in Sangli was robbed by a business rival.

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