A gang claiming to be Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers “raided” the home of a businessman in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district and fled with Rs 30 lakh on Friday, mentioned the police.
The incident befell at Kolnadu in Bantwal taluk, the place the gang searched the home of Haji N Sulaiman, proprietor of Mangaluru Singari Beedi Works. His son Mohammed Iqbal filed a criticism with the Vitla police station after the household discovered they had been conned.
A police officer mentioned, “On January 3, round 8.10 am, six individuals arrived in a Maruti Suzuki Ertiga. After coming into the home, an individual launched himself as an ED officer and produced a search warrant, claiming that they wanted to look the home. An individual who spoke in English requested to gather the 5 cellphones stopping them from contacting individuals outdoors.”
One among them requested Sulaiman to indicate his room the place they discovered Rs 30 lakh money. Stating that they weren’t allowed to maintain such an enormous amount of cash, considered one of them mentioned in English mentioned that he would arrest and take Sulaiman into custody.
After spending round 2.30 hours there, they allegedly requested Haji Sulaiman to provide paperwork to launch the seized money and requested him to go to the ED workplace in Bengaluru. They left the home with the cellphones which that they had “seized”, the police mentioned. A police officer mentioned the gang efficiently made the accused consider that they had been ED officers as they carried walkie-talkies and writing pads and dressed decently.
“They closed the back and front doorways of the home, stopping the victims from contacting neighbours. In addition they acquired maintain of gold ornaments however, after some dialogue, gave these again to Sulaiman however carried money and cellphones. As that they had requested to observe, Sulaiman in a automotive adopted their car whereas his son adopted on a two-wheeler. Nonetheless, after a ways, they misplaced the automotive. Upon checking, they discovered that it was a pretend ED group and later approached the police,” the officer mentioned.
The police registered a case beneath sections 319 (2) (cheat by personation) and 318 (4) (dishonest) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Yatish N visited the crime scene to evaluate the state of affairs and issued crucial directions to expedite the seek for the accused.
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