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Youth relieved of Rs. 5 lakh by gang posing as policemen

TAMBARAM: A four-member gang posing as policemen tricked a youth and robbed him of Rs. 5 lakh while he was travelling in a bus near Tambaram on Monday evening.

A. Mohammed, a native of Keelakkarai, Ramanathapuram district, was working in a shop run by a relative, Hyder Ali, also hailing from the same place. Mohammed told the police that Hyder Ali was planning to purchase a property in Keelakkarai and had given him Rs. 5 lakh cash to take it to their hometown.

On Monday evening, he had taken the sum and boarded a government bus in Koyambedu to reach Keelakkarai. At Tambaram, four men, looking like policemen in plainclothes tried to board the bus, but the conductor told them that the bus was packed to capacity.

However, the men told the conductor they were policemen, were in an emergency and did not mind travelling standing all the way. When the bus reached Guduvanchery around 8 p.m., one of the men asked the driver to stop the vehicle, telling they were members of a special police team and on the trail of a criminal.

When the bus stopped, the four men pushed down Mohammed and reportedly blindfolded him. They then pushed him into the vehicle and seized his bag. The vehicle, a Toyota Qualis, turned back towards Tambaram. Near the Chennai Bypass at Irumbuliyur, the men pushed Mohammed out of the vehicle and sped towards Maduravoyal.

Late in the night, the youth narrated the incident to personnel at Tambaram police station, but a case was not immediately registered. Personnel of Chengalpattu sub-division said the case had to be registered at St. Thomas Mount Police district as the youth was pushed out of the vehicle near Irumbuliyur. The case had to be probed either by Peerkankaranai or Tambaram police, they said.

On Monday afternoon, personnel of Crime Wing in Tambaram police station said no such incident was reported in their jurisdiction and that the scene of the reported crime came under the jurisdiction of Otteri or Guduvanchery police stations of Chengalpattu sub-division of Kancheepuram district.

But reporters managed to speak to Mohammed, who narrated the incident before he was signalled by policemen not to talk to reporters. Later in the evening, senior officials of St. Thomas Mount police said the case would be registered at Tambaram and transferred it to Guduvanchery.

The case was registered following Mohammed’s complaint, officials said, adding there was more to the incident than just the reported robbery as narrated by the victim.

They would be quizzing the bus crew to get their version of the incident.

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