Bhubaneswar: Inspired by the movie ‘Special 26′, a conman Friday looted gold to the tune of around 7 lakh and important documents from an employee of East Coast Railway here. Falsely posing as an inspector of Railway Protection Force, the conman duped the family members of the ECoR employee.
The victim, identified as G Srinivas Kumar of Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, has been staying at plot no. N/4 on Type 1 block at the Railway employees’ colony under Mancheswar police limits. He is an employee at the engineering department of East Coast Railway.
An unknown person reached his house when he was in office around 11am Friday. The miscreant reportedly came by a TVS Apache motorcycle that did not have a number plate. The person was successful in convincing the family members that Srinivas had been arrested by the Vigilance department in an embezzlement case and cops would soon conduct a raid at their residence.
He asked the panicky family members to store all vital documents and jewellery at a safe place away from home. Srinivas’s mother along with her grandchildren collected all the documents and gave them to a neighbour in the same colony. However, the conman told them that the documents were not safe even in the neighbour’s house. He asked Srinivas’s son to accompany him to a secret place where the documents could be safely stored.
The fraudster returned to Srinivas’s house after leaving the latter’s son near the State Bank of India branch at railway workshop in Mancheswar. He then asked the ECoR employee’s daughter to hand over gold jewellery weighing 226.60 grams so that Vigilance could not find them during the supposed raid.
Later, he asked Srinivas’s daughter to go back home and took the jewelry and documents with him. He left Srinivas’s son in front of the OMFED plant nearby saying that he would return soon. Srinivas’s 14-year- old son returned home after waiting for a few hours. Mancheswar police have started investigations into the matter.
