In less than a year, a gang that was arrested for defrauding a real estate agent and a doctor in Goregaon by impersonating CBI officers resurfaced recently and carried out another fraudulent raid at the office of a rice mill owner from Chhattisgarh, posing as officials from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and looting Rs 2 crore from him.

The police stated that the accused, currently out on bail, approached the rice mill owner in Chhattisgarh on June 27, pretending to be officials from the Enforcement Directorate. The rice mill owner managed to catch one of the gang members with the help of his house help, while the others escaped. The incident with the rice mill owner followed a similar pattern, but this time the accused claimed to be ED officials. This modus operandi was similar to what they had done last year with the real estate businessman in Goregaon, where they posed as CBI officers and made off with Rs 1.6 crore. The Mohan Nagar police station registered a case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and the investigation has begun.