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Harshad Mehta commits fresh Rs 75 lakh scam
Updated On: 12 December, 2009 06:51 AM IST | | Vinod Kumar Menon
Cheat who went by the name spiked drinks of victims travelling AC long-distance trains and used money to fly back to base in Mumbai
Cheat who went by the name spiked drinks of victims travelling AC long-distance trains and used money to fly back to base in Mumbai
Bhayander-resident Bharat Jain (27) alias Harshad Mehta's smooth ways could easily give his infamous scamster namesake (see box) a complex.
Jain, who speaks fluent English, Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi and Tamil, had been duping commuters travelling in first and second-class air conditioned coaches of long-distance trains for many years.u00a0
His criminal career was cut short by the Government Railway Police (GRP) in Pune, who arrested him in August at Daund on a Chennai-Mumbai Express train and recovered stolen laptops, mobile handsets and gold ornaments worth Rs 75 lakh from him before handing him over to the GRP Crime Branch in Kalyan on Tuesday.
Jain would befriend his victims and gain their confidence sufficiently, so they would accept drinks from him that were spiked with Ativan 2mg, a sedative.
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ACCUSED: Bharat Jain |
Investigating Police Inspector Atmacharan Shinde of the Pune GRP said that Jain would gift the stolen mobile handsets to his girlfriends.
"He would gift the phones to call girls he had befriended and sold the gold to jewellers in Zaveri Bazaar.u00a0 Much of the stolen gold as well as 19 such phones were recovered from him.
Jain never returned by train to Mumbai after committing a crime. He took a flight instead," said Shinde.
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