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Majalgaon Rural police station in-charge Vijay Ramod said the fraudster first contacted the personal assistant of a former minister from Beed and sought “help”. He contacted the Beed district collector to verify the alleged accident and learnt that no such incident had taken place,” Ramod said. And the story came with just enough official-sounding backing to make it convincing. “After a few hours, the SDObecame suspicious. By then, however, the conman had disappeared.
Soon, the fraudster contacted the SDOand asked for the money,” Ramod said. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: A fraudster allegedly took the sub-divisional officer of Majalgaon, in Beed, for a ride with an elaborate tale about the Mumbai collector’s son meeting with an accident. He claimed the injured man urgently needed an ambulance and money for hospitalisation. “The PA then called the sub-divisional officer (SDO) and alerted him about the claimed accident in his jurisdiction.
Beed Rural police registered a case under BNS section 318(2) for cheating on Sept 21. Further investigation is underway..