2 conmen who targeted men in uniform arrested

Two suspected conmen, who targeted security forces personnel, have been arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport, the police said today.
Azad Khan (24) and Tamanne (19) were nabbed from near the domestic terminal on September 22 when they were trying to dupe an Army jawan, said Sanjay Bhatia, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Airport).
Giving details of a case involving the duo, a police officer said that Manoj Kumar, a constable with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), had recently taken an autorickshaw from Aerocity Metro Station to the domestic airport, along with two other passengers.
One of Kumar's co-passengers showed him "a bundle of currency notes" and told him that he had stolen the money.

The co-passenger said that the police were after him and he could not take the bundle with him, the police said.
He told Kumar that he required just Rs 6,000 to reach Patna and offered to hand him the "bundle worth lakhs of rupees".

The other co-passenger offered Rs 3,000 to the man. It was decided that the money would be split between Kumar and the second co-passenger.
Kumar was made to believe that the bundle contained Rs 3 lakh, and he agreed with the proposal given by the duo.
Kumar's co-passenger handed him the bundle of notes. The second person told him that he would drop the first person at the bus stop and took Rs 33,000 and ID card from Kumar so that he did not flee with Rs 3 lakh, the police said.

When the accused persons did not come back for a long time, Kumar realised that he had been conned and approached the police.
During investigation, it emerged that a specialised gang, that targeted defence personnel at railway stations, metro stations and airport, was behind the incident, Bhatia said.
The police scanned CCTV footage from the area and identified the two accused. Staff was deployed in plain clothes near Aerocity Metro Station to nab the duo, the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) said.
On September 22, a police personnel spotted the two accompanying a person in uniform. They were nabbed.
This second victim later turned out to be an Army jawan.

The accused confessed to having committed 50 to 60 such offences this year, the DCP said.