Mumbai Crime: SoBo businessman robbed of Rs 32 lakh by driver

Representational picTwo crooks looted a SoBo businessman of Rs 32 lakh mdash no matter that the notes were in the old denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 mdash so they could go holiday in Goa where they were sure that they could put them to use Instead they ended up making a oneway trip to jailThe complainant Sunil Majethia 50 is a resident of Cumbala Hill Nepean Sea Road and runs a tours and travel business Sunil recently posted an ad on Quikr looking for a driver Thatrsquos when one of the accused Shahrukh Niyaz Ahmed 23 got in touch with him Shahrukh was an Ola cab driver and he told the businessman that he was not only willing to work for him but would also help him earn extra moneyAlso Read Mumbai Crime Robbers tie up woman businessman loot houseLure of moneyldquoShahrukh claimed that he could help Sunilrsquos travel company by arranging a tieup with Air India and also promised to develop an app to generate more business increasing income by about Rs 50000 per monthrdquo said API Praful Wagh Thane Rural local crime branchOn November 16 the 50yearold called and said he had to go to Gujarat for a property deal On hearing this Shahrukh said that the app developer was also in Gujarat and they could meet him together They set out in two cars mdash Sunil and his brotherinlaw were in one and Shahrukh drove the other car in which Sunilrsquos sister and another female relative were seated with a bag of Rs 32 lakh in cashWhen they reached Valsad Sunil got a call informing him that the property deal was off Swayed by the sight of all that cash Shahrukh had already hatched a plan to steal it They began to drive back to Mumbai and when they reached Kashimira Shahrukh told Sunil if they waited near Delhi Darbar hotel the app developer would come and meet them ldquoShahrukh then called his accomplice Ajay Suresh Tiwari 25 there Ajay arrived on a Dio bike They snatched the bag of cash and fledrdquo added WaghRead Story Businessman robbed of Rs 10 lakh at gunpointInvestigation launchedA case was registered at the Kashimira police station in the wee hours of November 17 The cops tried to track Shahrukh down with the help of his mobile number but discovered that he had registered the SIM card using an alias ldquoShahrukh was nabbed within a day followed by the arrest of Ajay on November 19rdquo said PSI Abhijeet TailorCurrency no objectldquoThey had planned a full trip to Goa and Shahrukh had spent Rs 30000 on clothes and a bag so he could enjoy the trip The cash was in Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes but he was sure that he could use the banned notes in Goardquo said API Wagh