NAVI MUMBAI: An absconding ‘history-sheeter’, identified as Kiran Shah (40), a Ghatkopar resident, having over 100 criminal cases registered against him has been arrested by the crime branch of Navi Mumbai police.
The police said that he used to approach rickshaw drivers and gullible pedestrians, ask them for their gold chains to check purity of gold at a jewellery store and would flee with the gold.
Senior inspector Sunil Shinde said that Shah would trick men by warning them of initiating action, claiming that the man had deliberately pushed a pregnant woman or teased a girl and would compel him to hand over his gold and decamp with it. The fraudster was arrested near Turbhe railway station.
Police commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh said ornaments worth Rs 2.68 lakh have been recovered from him.
