Mumbai: 24-year-old man in search of lost gold chain is conned out of mobile phone

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A 24-year-old salesman seems to have run out of luck on Wednesday night. He not only lost his gold chain at Borivli railway station that day, but when he tried to look for it, a man on the pretext of helping him find it, ran away with his mobile phone. In all the salesman lost Rs 38,990 which is the combined worth of the stolen items.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) Borivli has launched a manhunt to trace the man who fled with the mobile phone. According to the GRP, Shivam Tripathi was boarding a Virar slow local train from platform number 3 to Nalasopara on Wednesday around 8.30 pm. He suddenly realised that the gold chain around his neck had broken and probably fallen on the platform. He got off the train and started looking for the chain on the platform, but when he did not find it there, he thought it had probably fallen on the tracks. After the train left, he went on the track to find it.

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The police said this is when the accused came and on the pretext of helping him, he asked Tripathi to start the torch of his mobile phone and give it to him, so he would hold it to help him. Tripathi fell for the excuse and handed his mobile phone to the accused. He then got busy looking for the gold chain on the track, and the accused stood on the platform holding the mobile phone to direct the torch to the places where Tripathi was searching for the chain. "But when another train began to approach, passengers on the platform alerted Tripathi and asked him to get on the platform. When Tripathi was climbing onto the platform, the accused fled with his mobile phone" a police officer said.

The gold chain was worth Rs 16,000 while the mobile phone was for Rs 22,990. "We have registered the case under sections 408 and 420 of IPC. The Borivli GRP are looking for the accused with the help of CCTV footage," said Senior Inspector Anil Kadam of the GRP, Borivli.