Even as the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) continue to roil the country, criminals have decided to use it to their advantage. Two youths from Assam who were in the city for work, were conned out of more than R10,000 by two men posing as CID officers over 'not carrying documents to prove they were on the NRC list'. It took them a while to realise they had been conned after which they approached the police.

Mohammed Jiyabur Rehman, 28, a Guwahati resident, came to Mumbai with his 24-year-old friend Rabbul Hussain Abdul Kadri on January 24.