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| Ahead of Modi's package, imposter dupes flood victims | | Decamps with Rs 8000 `stamp' fee | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 6: Even as flood victims are eagerly awaiting announcement of rehabilitation package by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to visit Srinagar on Saturday, imposters have started duping people here in the name of Government officials doing re-assessment of loss suffered in the floods last year. Police have filed a case.
A family at Nazirabad Bemina here said it has been duped by an imposter who visited their residence and managed to swindle Rs 8000.
The well dressed, middle aged man with clean shave, knocked the door of Abdul Jaleel Khan, popularly known as Jaleel Sir, pretending to be a Government official, who has come to make re-assessment of loss they suffered in the September 2014 floods.
The man, who spoke confidently, "re-assessed" the losses by going through the house interiors room by room and regretted that the loss was undervalued previously.
He told the family that instead of Rs 3800 for the partially damaged they would be paid Rs 5 lakhs of which Rs 75,000 would be paid on November 7.
The imposter told the family that Tehsildar Shalteng was waiting outside and that he would prepare the new proposal for relief in no time.
The man, however, asked the family to pay Rs 8000 as stamp fee for preparation of official documents.
Feeling that the official visit could be related to visit of Prime Minister, they didn't miss a minute to pay the cash.
The family at once paid Rs 8,000 to the "Government official" who left their house to get back stamp papers attested by the Tehsildar. "But he didn't return and when we finally reached the office of the concerned Tehsildar, we found that we had been duped," said Jaleel.
The family said the imposter was well informed that they had applied of re-assessment of loss with the office of Tehsildar and misused this plea to dupe them. |
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