‘Spiritual leader’ booked in Mumbai for duping shop owner of gold worth Rs 2 lakh

The complainant had known Gopal Das Baba for implicit a decennary arsenic the accused often visited his store offering proposal and the 32-year-old antheral utilized to springiness him wealth occasionally, constabulary said.

On November 18, Gopal Das Baba allegedly called the complainant to his location successful Nehru Nagar, assuring him that helium could resoluteness his problems. The accused offered to behaviour a “vastu puja” to amended the complainant’s fortunes.

During the ritual, the “spiritual leader” requested the complainant to bring his golden ornaments, which the second wrapped successful a reddish cloth and placed successful a designated worship space.

Gopal Das Baba near the determination by the extremity of the time with the golden ornaments saying that helium would instrumentality them connected November 19 aft finishing the ritual. According to police, the accused returned connected November 21 and gave the 32-year-old antheral the reddish cloth containing the ornaments, instructing him to unwrap it lone aboriginal that night.

When the complainant opened the reddish cloth later, helium recovered that the the ornaments person been replaced with 2 betel nuts, wheat grains, and a portion of paper. When the store proprietor tried to interaction Gopal Das Baba, his telephone was switched off, the FIR said.

Following this, connected November 22, the 32-year-old antheral filed a ailment astatine Nehru Nagar constabulary station, based connected which a lawsuit of cheating was registered.

According to investigators, they are tracking down the suspect, utilizing telephone information records and circulating his representation among their sources.