Youth pretends to be woman, recovers stolen mobile [Representative image]& |  Photo Credit: iStock Images
Key Highlights
- The youth roped in his four friends to get his mobile phone back.
- He created a fake account in a woman’s name on Instagram.
- He, through the fake Instagram account, befriended the youth who had stolen his mobile phone last month.
Chennai: A 20-year-old youth in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai posed as a woman on Instagram, a popular social media platform, in order to recover his mobile phone which was stolen by one of his friends last month.
As per reports, Saravanan, a resident of Anna Nagar East, approached the Puzhal police with a complaint that a group, comprising five persons, abducted him and snatched his mobile phone and motorcycle at Puzhal lake in the city. Subsequently, police initiated inquiries leading to the identification of the group members – Lokesh (20), Praveen (24), Prathap (23), Vinod Kumar (19) and a juvenile (name withheld).
Case takes unexpected twist
The case took an unexpected turn as police interrogations revealed that that the mobile phone actually belonged to Lokesh. Saravanan had stolen it from him on January 18. Lokesh, after this, lodged a complaint with the Ambathur police, but no action was taken. Following this, he decided to recover the phone himself, according to a report by The Times of India.
Lokesh teamed up with his friends – Praveen, Prathap, Vinod Kumar and the minor to get his phone back. He created a fake profile in a woman’s name on Instagram. Thereafter, he befriended Saravanan through the fake Instagram account and asked him to meet at Puzhal lake last week. When Saravanan arrived at the lake, Lokesh and his friends, all covering their faces with masks, thrashed him and snatched the mobile phone and the motorcycle, police said.
Another incident
A 40-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing vehicles worth Rs 37 lakh in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai.
Acting on a tip-off, the police apprehended the accused, identified as Sheldon Vaz, from the APMC Market in Navi Mumbai. Police said the thefts came to fore when a man filed a complaint with the APMC police, stating that he had rented out his car to man, who had assured him good returns on car rental services. For the first two months, the accused gave money to the complainant. Thereafter, he stopped paying him and didn’t return the car.
Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/chennai/article/chennai-20-year-old-youth-pretends-to-be-woman-on-social-media-recovers-stolen-mobile-phone/719609
