Police said Jaya Kumar along with his associates formed an interstate gang of diverting attention by luring victims in the name of supply of original gold at half price and delivered fake gold.
The gang’s primary strategy involved one of the suspects, a young boy, approaching victims in public places on the pretext of asking for directions or assistance
Hyderabad: Four persons including two women who were part of an attention diversion gang were arrested by the Musheerabad police on Monday. The police seized Rs.1.5 lakh and two UAE Dirham currency notes from them. The arrested persons were Banu Shaik (40), Kalpana alias Sadiya (28), Sana Afif Khan (26) and Mohammed Azad (35). According […]
Hyderabad: The Mangalhat police on Friday nabbed a three-member interstate attention diversion gang on charges of cheating a trader in the guise of exchanging foreign currency with Indian currency and fleecing him of Rs.1.6 lakh earlier this month. The arrested persons were Aman Khan (25), a chicken shop owner, Shaik Atif (29), a tailor and […]
Hyderabad: The Kachiguda police nabbed four persons involved in several attention diversion cases and recovered Rs.20 lakh on Wednesday. The arrested persons were Mohd Rafeeq Ibrahim Kalaburgi (45), a car dealer from Karnataka, who was earlier involved in sandalwood smuggling and extortion cases in Karnataka; B.Srinivas (55), a realtor from Maharashtra; Panduranga Rao (52) from […]
At the billing counter, after promising to pay the money through e-wallet on the shop owner’s number, they diverted his attention and fled the spot with the ornament,” police said.