Youth dupes elderly man of Rs.70,000
By IANSFriday, October 29, 2010
KOLKATA - A young man duped an elderly man Friday of Rs.70,000 by offering to help him deposit it in a bank here - and promptly fled with the money.
Police said the 65-year-old man had gone to a State Bank of India branch at Jadavpur.
When he collected the deposit slip from the counter, a youth approached him and offered to help fill up the form.
He told the old man to sign and wait until he returned with the deposit slip, said a witness.
When he did not return for a long time, the elderly man raised an alarm. By then the culprit had escaped.
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