A 22-year-old college dropout has been recently arrested at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) Airport for allegedly duping a flier of Rs 7,500 in January this year by cooking up a story of being in urgent need of money to buy an air ticket after missing a flight to Chandigarh for an examination. The accused ran out of luck on June 13 when the same flier spotted him at the airport and called the police control room.
Police said the accused had duped several people in the past and was out on bail after being arrested for a similar crime last year.
According to Sahar police, the accused, Modela Venkat Dineshkumar, 22, is a native of Guntur in Andhra Pradesh and had duped the complainant, Raghunandan Thakre, a 27-year-old marine engineer from Wardha, on January 1.
