Man held for duping his ‘father’

NEW DELHI - A 20-year-old man was arrested for duping the man who had provided him shelter and employment and treated him like a son for six years, police said Saturday.

The accused, Gajender, was a resident of Uttar Pradesh and pretended to be an orphan before Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Delhi, at a railway station in Kanpur, six years back.

“Kumar took pity on the boy and brought him to his home in Delhi and treated him like his son,” a police officer said.

Gradually, the accused started assisting Kumar in his catering business and was entrusted to collect payments from clients.

But after years of nurturing, Gajender betrayed Kumar Jan 1 and fled with his Hyundai i10 car, a gold bracelet worth Rs.1.5 lakh gifted to him by the victim and the cash collected on that night, police said.

Gajender was arrested Friday. The car and the bracelet were recovered from him.