Bengaluru: A fake baba, who had conned two women and stolen their jewellery, was arrested by the Madiwala police on Sunday.
The baba had on November 4 provided drugged 'holy water' to the two women as a remedy for paralysis and decamped with gold ornaments.
The accused has been identified as Munazir Ahmed (35), a resident of Basavanapura on Bannerghatta Road. Police said he was a habitual offender and two similar cases were booked against him in Bellandur police station as well.
The police have recovered gold ornaments weighing 160 gm, which he had stolen from the women's house, and have also detected two similar cases wherein the accused had cheated a lonely women of gold ornaments weighing 173 gm and mortgaged it at a gold buying company.
Munazir on November 3 had approached an octogenarian woman near a medical shop in BTM Layout first stage and offered to arrange for a special puja to cure her ailing 60-year-old daughter, who was suffering from paralysis.
The next day Munazir visited the woman's house and gave her 'holy water' after performing a puja at her house. As the 'holy water' was drugged, the two women fell unconscious and Munazir fled with the gold ornaments they were wearing.
The modus operandi of Munazir, the police said, was to get acquainted with lonely women and cheat them of gold jewellery under the pretext of performing puja to solve their health problems. He used drugged water to make his victims unconscious, before fleeing with the loot.
The police said Munazir was previously involved in similar cases reported in Hanumantha Nagar, Siddapur and Tilak Nagar police station limits and was also jailed for those offences.
