Man held for cheating woman of gold, Rs 2.5 lakh

Police said the woman, employed at an IT park in Ambattur, had met Vigneshwaran (25) of Valasaravakkam on Facebook in 2017. Soon, their friendship developed into an affair. 

But Vigneshwaran, who has completed only Class 10, allegedly told the woman that he was a dancer by profession. Making her believe in his stories, he collected jewels from her claiming that he needed money for a surgery. Trusting him, she gave her jewels, 25 sovereigns, and Rs 2.5 lakh.

But thereafter, Vigneshwaran began demanding more money and allegedly threatened to release their intimate photos on social media. Following this, the woman lodged a complaint at Ambattur Estate police station, leading to Vigneshwaran’s arrest and recovery of 19 sovereigns of jewels which he had pawned. He has been remanded in judicial custody.

In yet another incident of social media relationship being used to cheat gullible persons, a woman techie lost 25 sovereigns and Rs 2.5 lakh to a person who had professed his love for her on Facebook. Police recovered 19 sovereigns following his arrest.

Police said the woman, employed at an IT park in Ambattur, had met Vigneshwaran (25) of Valasaravakkam on Facebook in 2017. Soon, their friendship developed into an affair. But Vigneshwaran, who has completed only Class 10, allegedly told the woman that he was a dancer by profession. 

Making her believe in his stories, he collected jewels from her claiming that he needed money for a surgery. Trusting him, she gave her jewels, 25 sovereigns, and Rs 2.5 lakh.

But thereafter, Vigneshwaran began demanding more money and allegedly threatened to release their intimate photos on social media. Following this, the woman lodged a complaint at Ambattur Estate police station, leading to Vigneshwaran’s arrest and recovery of 19 sovereigns of jewels which he had pawned. He has been remanded in judicial custody.

Barely 10 days after a just-born boy was found abandoned near a stormwater drain in Valasaravakkam, a body of a six-month-old premature baby was found abandoned on the road in R K Nagar on Saturday.

Passers-by, who were shocked to notice the child lying on the sixth street of Nethaji Nagar, alerted R K Nagar police. They retrieved the child’s body and sent it to Government Stanley Medical College Hospital for post-mortem examination. 

Sources in the hospital said that the child was not fully-developed yet except the limbs, and said it could have been a case of pre-term birth. Police sources said that CCTV footage retrieved from the locality shows two women leaving the child’s body, wrapped in a paper, in a bush on the roadside. It is suspected that stray dogs could have pulled the body on to the road. Further investigation is on.