When it comes to scamming people, some folks have some seriously clever tricks up their sleeve. This bloke from Noida used his own car to make a fool out of people.
According to a Hindustan Times report, a 28-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly selling his used car on an e-commerce site and then stealing the vehicle using its duplicate key.?
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In March this year, a man named Jite Yadav had apparently come across an advertisement for a used car, a Maruti Swift VXI. He contacted the seller and fixed the deal at Rs 2.60 lakh.?
According to the report, the suspect named Manottan Tyagi told the buyer that the original papers and the second key would be delivered later. The victim Yadav then paid Rs 2.10 Lakh said Rs 50,000 will be paid once the papers and key are delivered.
Next day, Yadav had parked the car outside his office in Sector 12 when it was stolen.?
Later, a police investigation revealed that the suspect had fixed a GPS tracking device in the car and had been tracking Yadav's movements.?
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He then stole the car using the key he had kept with him. The police said that the man had cheated several people in the same way before this.?
The police have recovered the stolen car, two mobile phones, three fake Aadhar cards, three PAN cards and Rs 10,720 in cash from him.?
The suspect was produced in court and sent to judicial custody. Tyagi has cheated at least seven people using the same modus operandi in the past two years.