Fraudsters pose as vigilance cops to dupe octogenarian doctor in Odisha

Bhubaneswar, July 11 (UNI) Six criminals posing themselves as anti-corruption vigilance wing sleuths conducted a fake raid at the house of an octogenarian physician to decamp with cash, gold ornaments and household valuables at his native village in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, police said today.

The miscreants barged into the house of physician Dr Jalil Ahamad Khan at Oldhi village under Derabish police station yesterday afternoon and faked their identity as vigilance cops.

Later they conducted a search operation to detect movable and immovable assets disproportionate to the physician’s known source of income.

Dr Khan, a popular physician in the area, had retired from service at the government medical college at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand two decades ago. Post-retirement, he opted to live in his native village to serve the local residents.

The self-styled vigilance cops furnished fake proof of identity to impress upon the physicians that they were conducting raids based on specific feedback on the accumulation of ill-got assets.

They later made away with Rs 1.5 lakh cash, 500 grams of gold ornaments.

The miscreants, while leaving the place, directed the victim to turn up at the district vigilance office at Kendrapara with proof that his assets and source of income were legitimate.

The entire operation was well-orchestrated and lasted for about an hour.

Later, after turning up at the vigilance office, he was shocked to find that he had been taken for a ride by miscreants.

Police have begun a manhunt to arrest them at the earliest, and a special squad has been constituted to crack the crime, said the Inspector-In-Charge of Derabish police station, Ambika Das.