With promise of Dirhams, man duped of Rs 9L; gets Rin soap, paper bits instead

“The woman claimed she works as a house help and her employer’s son works in Dubai. She said the son had handed her some Dirham notes and she wanted to sell them off,” read the statement of the complainant. The man was further told she will sell them at a lesser value than the market and asked whether he was interested in buying. An officer said, “The woman had even handed him an original Dirham note to gain his trust so that he goes and verifies it on its own after which she called him again in the evening and asked him to meet her near Santacruz bus depot.”

At Santacruz, Pinky had come with her brother Rahim Shaikh and another woman following which they showed him a bundle of Dirham notes and claimed that the notes were worth 9 lakh.

“At that time I was ready to buy all the notes from them. So, I asked them to give me a day’s time to collect the money. I then went and mortgaged my gold ornaments and took Rs 8.9 lakh behind Santacruz Bus Depot to meet them on Sunday,” read the statement of the 49-year-old complainant. As per the complaint, the three accused took him to an isolated location and exchanged the money for Dirhams.

“The woman handed me a black and blue colour cloth bag and told me that it contained Dubai currency notes following which they escaped and even I left,” the complainant told the police. The supervisor later opened the bag and noticed that it contained eight notes of Dirhams, a bundle of pieces of paper and a Rin soap. He then approached Vakola police station and lodged a complaint.