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Sunday, Jul 30, 2006

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Karnataka - Bangalore

`Policeman' cheats couple

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Posing himself as a policeman, a man cheated a couple of their gold ornaments worth Rs. 25,000 in Jalahalli police station limits on Friday.

The police said that while Shivaram was having a hair cut at a salon at Jalahalli, a man, who came on a motorcycle, called him out. He introduced himself as a policeman from Andhra Pradesh and told Shivaram that he was on the lookout for an accused in a theft case.

He showed Shivaram a photograph of the "accused" and charged him with sheltering him. Though Shivaram claimed that he was innocent, the "policeman" told him that he wanted to search his house.

They went to Shivaram's house, situated near the Government Primary School at Jalahalli, and a search was conducted. After Shivaram's wife told the "policeman" that the gold ornaments in the house belonged to her, he made Shivaram accompany him to Gangammanagudi Circle to meet his senior officer.

He dropped Shivaram at Gangammanagudi Circle and told him that he would return with his senior officer, who had gone for coffee.

The "policeman" then came to Shivaram's house and took the gold jewellery from his wife saying that her husband had asked him to bring it.

But the "policeman" did not return to Gangammanagudi Circle where Shivaram was waiting for him, the police said. The Jalahalli police have registered a case on a complaint by Shivaram.

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