Vadodara: A gang of fake cops tried to rob a farmer from Kawant, near Bodeli in Chhota Udepur on Wednesday midnight.
The farmer, Prakash Zamrala, told police that he was on his way to Vadodara to sell his farm produce when he was stopped near Jojva village. Zamrala said that there was just one man standing with a baton and when he stopped five others rushed towards his car.
“On seeing the baton Zamrala believed that the accused was a cop. Zamrala showed his driving license and his car’s documents when asked. Yet, he was pulled out of the car and beaten up. His helper Alpesh Nayak was also thrashed and his car too was damaged,” said a police official.
The robbers took away their mobile phones, Rs 15,000 cash and 10 sacks of pigeon peas from Zamrala’s car. As the robbers were about to flee, the police reached and nabbed one of them identified as Ransing Rathwa.
The police said that when the two victims were being beaten up, a car driver passing by, stopped to help them, but as the robbers pelted stones at him, he fled.