Chennai: Con artistes dupe boy, flee with Rs 8 lakh gold
The men told Lokesh they had been sent by his mother Maniyammal, who works in a private firm.
Chennai: Two youths in Chengalpet conned a class X student at home and took away 36 sovereigns of gold and Rs 56,000 in cash after informing the victim that his mother had asked them to bring the gold and the cash to the market for buying a car on Wednesday.
M.Lokesh, a class X student, was at home on Allan Road in Thirumani village and was preparing for his SSLC examination on Wednesday afternoon when two men came to his house.
The men told Lokesh they had been sent by his mother Maniyammal, who works in a private firm. The visitors referred the name of his mother and told the boy his mother had decided to buy a car and was waiting at the market.
They told him that his mother had asked them to fetch all the gold and cash kept in the bureau in the house. They also informed him that his mother had told them that the key of the bureau had been kept under the pillow in the bedroom.
The boy took the key from under the pillow, opened the bureau, took 36 sovereigns of gold ornaments worth over Rs 8 lakh and cash Rs 56,000 and handed everything over to the visitors who were total strangers to him.
The conmen were trying their luck by telling the boy that the key was kept under the pillow, police revealed. “But it worked” police acknowledged. The boy never bothered to call his mother on her mobile and check.
Only when his mother and father Mani, who also works in a private firm, returned in the evening did the family become aware of the con act carried out by the two men.
While Lokesh was waiting for his parents to come home in a car, the parents were shocked to know that their entire savings had been taken away by two conmen.