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Police arrested two gas cylinder delivery boys from Navi Mumbai for allegedly selling 12 rental cars in Rajasthan
MUMBAI: Powai police arrested two gas cylinder delivery boys from Navi Mumbai for allegedly selling 12 rental cars in Rajasthan on forged documents.
Jagdish Bisnoi (23) and Mahendra Godara (19)-both school dropouts-hit upon the idea after they hired a vehicle from Zoomcar to travel to their hometown in Rajasthan in March after the lockdown was imposed, said the police.
Based on a complaint by Zoomcar field executive Dhiraj Maurya on November 3, zonal DCP Maheshwar Reddy supervised a team of senior inspector Vijay Dalvi, inspector Dilip Dhamunse, and sub-inspectors Yash Palwe and Vinod Lad, that arrested the duo from Powai when they arrived to rent a car on December 27. Six cars stolen from Borivli, Chembur, Powai, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh were recovered from them.
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MUMBAI: Fraudsters too have a sense of guilt and scruples too. A 38-year-old man, Prem Prakash Makhija, has been arrested for allegedly purchasing 320kg of cashew nut from a businessman from Marine Drive by masquerading as dry fruit trader and vamoosed without paying Rs 1.5 lakh. What helped the police nab him was his guilt which made him feed cows to wash his sins .
Makhija had seen an advertiement about sale of cashew nuts at a wholesale price. He contacted the businessman, Narendra Tari (57), who owns cashew plantations in Konkan, and ordered 320 kg of cashew nuts, said senior inspector of Powai police station Vijay Dalvi. He identified himself as Pradip Agrawal, a dry fruit businessman, having a warehouse in Andheri (east).