Extravagant lifestyle leads youth to crime, jail

Bangalore, Aug 22 (UNI) Police arrested a five-member gang, including its 19-year-old kingpin, which duped an aged couple to the tune of Rs 1.14 crore promising to get their plot of land reallocated by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA).

The main accused, C Sukesh alias Drift King, had approached the couple, stating that he would get the BDA plot, worth crores of Rupees, that was withdrawn by the BDA, reallocated to them with the help of his friend Mohammed Fiaz (21), who posed as the son of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.

Briefing newspersons here today, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East) Soumendu Mukherjee said the duo had introduced another person, Saleem (28), to the couple as a builder who had connections with Ministers and other VIPs. They managed to take Rs 1.14 crore from the couple in instalments.

They gave the couple fabricated documents, claiming that they had got the site reallocated to them. But when the couple found that the papers were fake, they made a complaint to the police.

Sukesh, who had been obsessed with the high-spending lifestyle, used the money to buy seven imported cars, cell phones, watches, cash and expensive jewellery worth Rs 70 lakhs that was klater seized by the police. One of the cell phones seized by the police cost Rs 2.8 lakh, he added.

Based on the complaint, police nabbed the trio along with Sukesh's parents for allegedly supporting their son in committing the crime.

UNI