Woman held for selling cars seized by cops
A 26-year-old woman from Mazgaon has been arrested for duping four people by promising them high-end cars at cheap rates.
The accused, Samina Usmani, who has been booked for cheating and criminal breach of trust under Indian Penal Code sections 420 and 406, would show her victims the cars seized by various units of the Mumbai Police, which were parked at Azad Maidan Police Station.
She would tell her victims that the cops wanted to auction off these vehicles and offered cars such as Innova and Scorpio for as less as Rs 2 lakh. A brand new Scorpio costs more than Rs 8 lakh, and an Innova is priced above Rs 12 lakh.
Usmani was, however, arrested only last Monday after a local court rejected her anticipatory bail plea, while her mother and brother are absconding. The cops have already recovered Rs 2.5 lakh from Usmani. Assistant Police Inspector Mokal from RAK Marg Police Station said that the woman would call her victims to Azad Maidan Police Station, where she would even show them the cars, hand them fake documents and collect the advance payment.
One of the complainants, businessman Hamdan Moinuddin, said the woman had convinced them that she had contacts with the Azad Maidan police. “She used to meet officers at the police station and we were convinced that she knew people there. We realised only a few months later that we have been conned,“ Moinuddin said.
One of the complainants is a maulvi, Badruddin Shaikh, from a Sewri mosque. “She was in fact involved in another case, and I had helped her when she convinced me that she had been framed. Later, she told me that she wanted to return the favour by selling me a car at a cheaper rate,“ Shaikh's complaint said.
The accused, Samina Usmani, who has been booked for cheating and criminal breach of trust under Indian Penal Code sections 420 and 406, would show her victims the cars seized by various units of the Mumbai Police, which were parked at Azad Maidan Police Station.
She would tell her victims that the cops wanted to auction off these vehicles and offered cars such as Innova and Scorpio for as less as Rs 2 lakh. A brand new Scorpio costs more than Rs 8 lakh, and an Innova is priced above Rs 12 lakh.
The RAK Marg Police said that between January and May last year, the woman collected Rs 5.5 lakh towards advance payment from the four complainants, who are known to each other but were conned separately. A first information report was filed in July, which also names the woman's mother and brother.
Usmani was, however, arrested only last Monday after a local court rejected her anticipatory bail plea, while her mother and brother are absconding. The cops have already recovered Rs 2.5 lakh from Usmani. Assistant Police Inspector Mokal from RAK Marg Police Station said that the woman would call her victims to Azad Maidan Police Station, where she would even show them the cars, hand them fake documents and collect the advance payment.
One of the complainants, businessman Hamdan Moinuddin, said the woman had convinced them that she had contacts with the Azad Maidan police. “She used to meet officers at the police station and we were convinced that she knew people there. We realised only a few months later that we have been conned,“ Moinuddin said.
One of the complainants is a maulvi, Badruddin Shaikh, from a Sewri mosque. “She was in fact involved in another case, and I had helped her when she convinced me that she had been framed. Later, she told me that she wanted to return the favour by selling me a car at a cheaper rate,“ Shaikh's complaint said.
