Mumbai:
Goregaon police have detained a 19-year-old stock trader on the charge of misguiding the police and registering a false complaint. Meet Brahmabhatt complained that he was abducted by three men on Saturday night and robbed of Rs40,000 and a gold chain.
"Brahmabhatt feared his family would reprimand him as he had wasted Rs15,000 buying lottery tickets and mobile phones and spent money on friends," said senior inspector Surendra Paithankar of Goregaon police station.
"The incident was used as a cover-up by Brahmabhatt to convince his family that he had been kidnapped and robbed. He had borrowed Rs 15,000 from a jeweller in Goregaon by mortgaging his gold chain."
Brahmabhatt was taken to the police station after he was found sitting and crying on the road behind Inorbit mall in Malad (West). He told the police that he withdrew Rs40,000 from an ATM in Malad. While leaving the teller machine he got a call from his girlfriend and they decided to meet near Cinemax in Goregaon. When he was waiting for his girlfriend there three men in a Maruti van came and kidnapped him.
After gagging him and putting blindfolds, they took him around for more than an hour. Then they robbed him of the money and a gold chain and left him on the road.
"While we were taking his statement we found something suspicious. We observed him for two days and when we started questioning, he spilled the beans," said a police officer.
"We have taken the statement of the jewellery shop owner and the person who runs the lottery shop. He has been detained and will be arrested for misguiding the police and registering a false compliant," said Paithankar.
"Brahmabhatt feared his family would reprimand him as he had wasted Rs15,000 buying lottery tickets and mobile phones and spent money on friends," said senior inspector Surendra Paithankar of Goregaon police station.
"The incident was used as a cover-up by Brahmabhatt to convince his family that he had been kidnapped and robbed. He had borrowed Rs 15,000 from a jeweller in Goregaon by mortgaging his gold chain."
Brahmabhatt was taken to the police station after he was found sitting and crying on the road behind Inorbit mall in Malad (West). He told the police that he withdrew Rs40,000 from an ATM in Malad. While leaving the teller machine he got a call from his girlfriend and they decided to meet near Cinemax in Goregaon. When he was waiting for his girlfriend there three men in a Maruti van came and kidnapped him.
After gagging him and putting blindfolds, they took him around for more than an hour. Then they robbed him of the money and a gold chain and left him on the road.
"While we were taking his statement we found something suspicious. We observed him for two days and when we started questioning, he spilled the beans," said a police officer.
"We have taken the statement of the jewellery shop owner and the person who runs the lottery shop. He has been detained and will be arrested for misguiding the police and registering a false compliant," said Paithankar.
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