DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Jul 02: A Chennai resident has reportedly duped a shopkeeper who running a wholesale shop (Grocery) at Diglipur and fled away with lakhs of rupees. As per the reports a person namely K Nagarajan R/o Thiruvattiur at Chennai bearing Aadhar card No 754272964702 and Phone No 8900971317 came to Diglipur with a reference of common friend and stayed at Selvam Store near RGT Temple Diglipur.
In the mean time the person got well-acquainted with all the works of the shop. He also used to go for wholesale business deals, with the four wheelers. The Proprietor of the Selvam Store Mr NM Selvam went to mainland from 12-18 June, after handing over the business to that person.
As soon as the Selvam came back from mainland Nagaragan wanted to go Port Blair in the pretext of visiting a friend at Port Blair. Mr. Selvam reportedly gave him Rs 5000/- and also asked to collect two lakhs rupees from a shop at Mohanpura Port Blair on his behalf and also to bring some shop items on 23rd June.
The accused reportedly collected the money on 25 Jun at 0730 pm and fled away next day morning. Mr. Selvam believes that he probably collected lakhs of rupees from retail shops of Diglipur also in name of Selvam Stores, when he was away. Meanwhile, a case has been filed at PS Diglipur and further investigations are on, in this regard.
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