Mumbai Crime: Gujarat woman who duped senior citizens of their ornaments arrested

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The Mumbai Police arrested a 34-year-old woman from Gujarat for allegedly duping senior citizens on the pretext of providing dues from public schemes. The accused, identified as Shahidabibi Khan, has duped at least two women from western suburbs.

According to a report in Times of India, Shahidabibi Khan used to target women who were in their 70s. She used to convince them that she has contacts in the government departments. She would take the victim to a government office where she would ask them to take off all the ornaments before meeting the officials as it would "help them get their money sooner". Khan used to tell the victim that she will look after the ornaments and later she would flee with the valuables.

On March 19, the accused took an elderly woman to a commercial building in Goregaon on the pretext of helping her in getting the pension money. However, she ran away with the elderly woman's ornaments.

In another incident, Khan took a senior citizen to Goregoan with her and then ran away with her valuables. The alleged incident came to light after one of the victims lodged a complaint and the cops managed to find Khan's pictures after they scanned the CCTV footage of the area.

Further inquiry revealed that Khan is a resident of Anant in Gujarat and she was previously arrested in Gujarat for another case. The police then took Khan's custody and brought her to Mumbai.