4 arrested for thefts pretending to be deaf and speech-disabled individuals | Mumbai information

Mumbai: 4 males, residents of Tamil Nadu, have been arrested on Sunday for allegedly pretending to be deaf and speech-disabled individuals to hunt financial assist and committing thefts by fraudulent means.

The quartet, suspected to be committing thefts within the metropolis for 10 years, have been arrested from a lodge in Dharavi, the place they resided by disguising themselves as material merchants.

In an incident on Friday, a feminine assistant supervisor, working with the Financial institution of Maharashtra, realized that her iPhone value 40,000, was lacking from her desk. The girl tracked her cellphone to Dharavi, by way of a cellular monitoring app and knowledgeable the cops in regards to the incident. Law enforcement officials then tracked the gang members in CCTV footage of railway stations, and located them getting off at Matunga.

The girl advised the police that she noticed a person, wandering within the financial institution, clutching a paper in his hand, she assumed that he was a buyer. She then went to the lavatory, when she returned, her cellular was lacking from her desk.

“We tracked the person to a lodge in Dharavi. The lodge employees knowledgeable us that they knew him (the alleged thief) for the previous 10 years, as he had been staying there throughout his visits to Mumbai, pretending to be a material dealer from Tamil Nadu,” mentioned an officer from Malad police station .

The officers entered the room the place Wediwel Bhoyar (36) had been staying and realized that he shared the room together with his three brothers – Manjunath Bhoyar, Govindswami Bhoyar, and Mahaviran Bhoyar. The police detained all 4 of them and recovered the stolen cell phone from Bhoyar, who had hidden it in his baggage.

“A number of circumstances of fraud are registered in opposition to them in Mumbai, in addition to in Tamil Nadu,” shared a police officer. Cops additionally shared that every one members of the gang have been present in possession of a certificates, declaring themselves as deaf and speech-disabled and that they wanted financial donations.

The lads additionally carried varieties containing columns for submitting names of donors and the sum donated. “With this certificates, the gang members gained entry to the federal government buildings, banks, and different establishments within the metropolis, and used the certificates to plead innocence, once they obtained caught doing one thing,” mentioned the police officer.

The 4 males have been produced earlier than a metropolitan Justice of the Peace courtroom on Monday and remanded to police custody for 4 days.