15 July,2016 12:50 PM IST | | Saurabh Vaktania
An undercover operation helped police crack down on the gang that befriended around 10 people in a Grant Road office and then stole all their belongings over the last month
To put an end to the notoriety of a gang, which drugs people, leaving them unconscious, and then steals all their belongings, the cops had to go undercover. This proved partially successful when a cop, posing as a victim, nabbed one accused while the other accompanying him fled on Tuesday.
Modus operandi
The gang targeted were people who came out of the Gulf Approved Medical Centers Association (GAMCA) office on Grant Road with a receipt. GAMCA is an association formed to provide medical examination to people who wish to go to the Gulf countries. So when these people visit the office with their passports, they are given a receipt and asked to visit a certain doctor for medical test.
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The GAMCA office at Grant Road
When they stepped out with the receipt, the gangmen would approach them with a similar receipt and ask them if they would accompany them to the doctor's office. "On the way, at a coconut seller's stall, the accused would offer the person coconut water and as soon as the man looked away, they would spike it. When the victim fell unconscious after drinking it, the accused gang would steal their cash, mobile phone and valuables," a police officer said.
The notice put up by GAMCA outside its office to warn people
There have been around 10 such cases in the last month. Recently, Jagdish Yadav (25) from Chembur fell prey to their plan. People came asking when he fell unconscious but the accused told them that he was weak. He then made him sit at a bus stop and took all his things.
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The GAMCA office has also put up posters to warn people.
Undercover
The DB Marg cop posed as a person interested in going to the Gulf on Tuesday and when two gang members approached him near the GAMCA office, he immediately nabbed one, while the other fled. The arrested, Mohammad Hussain Din Nabi Sheikh (28), said they are a gang of four men.
