A serial con posed as the manager of a prominent five-star hotel in the city and on the pretext of placing a bulk order of goods, cheated a mobile shop owner of electronic items worth Rs 2.56 lakh and fled from the scene.

Narendra Sharma, who posed as the manager of ITC Grand Central, has 5 police cases registered against him. Cops said he regularly uses this modus operandi of meeting people in five-star hotels and cheating them