Cops hunt for three eunuchs who duped elderly couple

“We found a CCTV recording showing the eunuchs entering the couple’s house,based on which we registered a complaint,” said sub-inspector Manohar Herpude.

The Malad police said that the complainants,Jayanti Prasad Garg (75) and his wife Meena (65),stay with their daughter Sangeeta (45) and granddaughter Jyoti (17) in a first-floor flat in the Veena Nagar Co-operative housing society at Chincholi Road in Malad (West). Their house is next to Sarogi’s flat,where his son and domestic help reside.

The officers said on the day of the incident,three eunuchs rang the Gargs’ doorbell,asking for water. One then pretended to be suffering from migraine and requested to be allowed in for a while,he added. “The three told the couple that their house was possessed by an evil spirit,” said Herpude.

The eunuchs suggested that the Gargs get whatever cash and jewellery they had as well as sindoor and other material to ward off the spirit,the police said. The couple brought out the cash and gold jewellery. The eunuchs pretended to perform rituals and told the couple that they will have to take the valuables and cash to a temple. They suggested that Sangeeta accompany them,the police said. As they were leaving the building,they allegedly asked Sangeeta to stay back. The three,however,never returned,the police said.