FRAUD PAYING GUEST FLEES WITH VALUABLES

MUMBAI: Three Worli residents recently posted an advertisement on OLX, offering a paying guest space in their apartment to share their burden of hefty rent. They received a response from a 32-year-old man, keen on joining them as a paying guest. Little did the men realise that this ‘deal’ will result in a robbery of their valuables and mobile handsets in 24 hours. The police arrested the accused on Friday, identified as Ramchandra Dubey, a Kalwa resident.

Dubey is married and his wife stayed at his native place in Uttar Pradesh. During the interrogation, he revealed that he wanted to bring his wife to Mumbai and required money for paying a deposit to rent a house and therefore, he committed the crime.

The complainant Shani Kumar, 29, works in a private firm and lives along with his two friends in a building called Lady Ratan complex in Bharat Nagar in Worli. The accused requested the three men to allow him to stay overnight, as he had no place to reside. When they woke up in the morning, the complainant and his friends realised that their mobile phones and valuables were all gone.

Dubey has a case registered against him in the Borivali police station, and there’s a possibility that he might have duped others in similar modus-operandi.