Two held for selling fake gold biscuits
Hyderabad, Aug 23 (INN): The City Police on Tuesday arrested two persons who used to cheat by trying to sell them fake gold biscuits. According to Asifnagar ACP L T Chandrasekhar, during routine vehicle checking, the Langar Houz DSI K Gopal along with his staff apprehended Mohammed Jameel and Nayeem Shaik, both natives of north India, while they were moving on a black Pulsar bike without number plate near Megha Susheel Apartments at Sapatagiri Colony in Langer House.
On interrogation they confessed that due to financial problems they used to cheat the public by calling people on phone that they found gold biscuits while cultivating their fields in Rajasthan.
By posing themselves as illiterate, they used to seek help in disposing off the gold biscuit. About 15 days ago, they showed a brass biscuit to a person at Sana Hotel, Ring Road and offered to sell it for Rs. 5 lakh and finally, the deal was okayed for Rs. 2 lakh. They took Rs. 35,000 as advance and handed over the fake gold biscuit, thereby cheating him.
The duo further confessed that they have also committed two chain snatching offences on the same Pulsar bike in front of Kakatiya School at Langer House about three months back and at Hasham Nagar about one month back.
Based on their confessions, police seized the Pulsar bike, two gold chains of about three tolas and and brass biscuits from their possession. The arrested accused persons are being sent to judicial custody.
News Posted: 23 August, 2011
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