AHMEDABAD: A non-residential Gujarati, settled in Botswana in Southern Africa, filed a complaint with Sabarmati riverfront (west) police on Thursday alleging that two men posing as fakirs had stolen $1,100 from while claiming to bless him with prosperity.
Kushal Parikh, 31, who has a house in Camp Sadar Bazar in Shahibaug, said the incident took place on August 13 when he had gone to an exhibition on Sabarmati riverfront. He said that he had $2,500 in his wallet.
He told police that he along with his friend Vikram Dutt were clicking some pictures near handloom exhibition site besides Vallabh Sadan building when the two men, aged about 25, came to them, begging for alms. Parikh, gave them Rs 10 from his wallet and they left.
According to the police, the two might have seen the dollars in his wallet due to which they returned 10 minutes later.
“They told me to show them both my hands so that they could bless me with prosperity. They put two photographs of a religious place on my palms and told me to put my wallet on it,” said Parikh in the FIR.
Parikh said that one of the men took his wallet for some time and then returned it.
After half an hour, when Parikh counted his notes, he found that $1,100 missing. He said in the FIR that he searched for the two accused persons but could not find them.
He ultimately approached the police and filed a complaint of theft and abetment against the two accused persons.
