Hyderabad: An incident similar to that of Hindi film Special 26 took place in the city on Monday night. A group of six persons, claiming to be CBI officers conducted raids and looted gold, laptops and mobile phones from the office of a numerologist at Ameerpet. However, the raids were confirmed by the police as fake and launched a hunt to nab the imposters.
The incident took place at Ushaa Numerology Sankalpa Sidhi run by Jagadish Babu, located at Annapurna Block in the Mythrivanam of Ameerpet.
At around 10.30 pm, when Jagadish and his two employees were at their routine work, six persons knocked on the door claiming to be officials from CBI. The panicked inmates allowed the claimants to enter the office when they informed them that it was a raid.
The group of men has confined two female employees in one room and Jagadish in another room and conducted searches.
After some time, they behaved as if the raids were completed and took away 25 tolas of gold, 11 laptops and eight mobile phones from the place.
After coming out of the shock, the victim approached the SR Nagar police and on getting confirmed that the raids were fake, he lodged a complaint.
The police registered a case under sections 419 and 395 of IPC for the probe.
S.R Nagar Detective Inspector Ajay Kumar said: “The suspects claimed to the officials from CBI and created panic for the numerologist. They informed him that they wanted to carry out raids and searched the entire premises and fled with the property. They also had called the victim and demanded `4 lakh to not register a case on him.”
With the clues available, including the footage of the CCTV cameras and the call data records, two of the suspects have been identified and teams are on the job to nab the gang, he said.
