Mysuru: A woman from Odisha was arrested on the charges of cheating a pawn broker by obtaining a loan of Rs 1 lakh after mortgaging fake gold bangles in August. Her paramour from Chhattisgarh too is now cooling his heels in jail.
Police are verifying their antecedents to check their involvement in other similar crimes.
Sangeetha Das (40) of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, and her lover Mosin Khan of Chhattisgarh, were arrested near Srirangapanta, Mysuru city police stated adding that they have seized about Rs 35,000 from the duo.
KR police station inspector Srinivas said Sangeetha and Mosin visited a pawnbroker shop at Tyagaraja Road in Agrahara with fake bangles asking for a mortgage loan in late August. She pleaded for a Rs 1 lakh loan from the owner Bhagavathi Jain, a senior citizen, claiming her son is hospitalised and she is in bad need of money. The unsuspecting pawn broker handed over Rs 1 lakh, but a day later, he grew suspicious and took the bangles to a computerized centre to verify its purity only to discover he had been cheated, police said.
Sangeetha Das, an MBA graduate, had given the pawnbroker a fake Aadhaar card that had details of a student from Pandavapura. She had affixed her photo over the card and taken a colour xerox of it. The only clue police had were this photo and the phone number, said cops.