A teenager allegedly tried to pull off a heist at a shop in Vasai West posing as a Sales Tax officer. The owner called his bluff after the photo on an identity card shown by him looked different. The card belonged to his grandfather, a retired officer of the department. 

Ali Asgar, 32, runs a second-hand mobile phone shop in Anand Nagar. He said the 17-year-old came in a Creta sporting a board of the Government of Maharashtra at 1 pm on Monday.