Currency notes with Anupam Kher picture used to con bullion trader of 2.1 kg gold

In a crippled twist that could beryllium the envy of adjacent Bollywood, a bullion trader was duped of 2.1 kgs of golden aft unidentified con men handed implicit counterfeit currency featuring the look of noted histrion Anupam Kher.

The transaction astatine the extremity near a section bullion trader, Mehul Thakkar, precocious and adust and duped of 2.1 kgs of gold.

Thakkar filed a ailment with the Navrangpura constabulary station, detailing however helium was tricked into accepting 26 bundles of counterfeit Rs 500 notes.

The fake currency, which hilariously bore the misspelled statement "Resole Bank of India," was presented to his unit successful speech for 2.1 kgs of golden connected September 24.

The saga began erstwhile Thakkar, a golden trader with a penchant for shiny things, received a telephone from Prashant Patel, the manager of a jewellery store whom the bullion trader knew.

Patel was anxious to bargain 2.1 kgs of gold, and aft immoderate haggling, they settled connected a terms of Rs 1.60 crore. Little did Thakkar know, helium was astir to go the prima of a real-life comedy.

On September 24, Thakkar instructed his unit to conscionable Patel astatine an 'angadia pedhi' (Hawala) bureau – a accepted money-moving service.

When they arrived, they were greeted not by the glamorous satellite of golden commercialized but by 3 "gentlemen" who handed implicit bundles of what they claimed were Rs 500 notes.

The unsuspecting unit was told to number the 'money' utilizing a instrumentality provided by the trio.

Two of them past went retired with the golden biscuits connected the pretext of fetching the remaining Rs 30 lakh from a neighbouring office, portion a 3rd 1 stayed on.

When the unit sent by Thakkar noticed the currency notes were fake aft taking them retired from integrative wrapper for counting, they questioned the 3rd person, who told them helium was determination conscionable to present the counting instrumentality for 'angadia pedhi', the complainant told the police.

It besides aboriginal came to airy that the angadia bureau was opened by the accused persons 2 days earlier the incident, arsenic per the complaint.

An FIR has since been filed against the 2 unidentified suspects, and constabulary person launched an probe to way down the culprits down this antithetic con.