------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660 Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Contractor falls for biscuit trick -------------------------------------------------- A Vasai-based contractor, Achinta Kumar Das (46) travelling on a Konkan Railway train has realised how bitter a "biscuit" could taste if accepted from strangers.
Das, who has been admitted to Hospicio hospital here on Wednesday evening after three young lads offered a biscuit laced with drugs, has been robbed of Rs 55,000.Margao PSI, Suraj Halarnkar informed that Das had boarded the Mandovi Express at Panvel enroute to Kaiga in Karwar where he has bagged some contracts.When the train reached Karmali railway station at around 6.30 on Wednesday evening, around three youngsters all aged between 22 to 26 years boarded the train.
The trio are believed to have developed friendship with the contractor, wherein Das offered them tea. And, the youngsters accepted the offer, but in return gave him a "biscuit" which made him feel giddy before he fell in an unconscious state.Police said the trio then decamped with cash of Rs 55,000 which Das had stacked in his pocket by cutting it open. He was carrying the amount on his person to pay the labourers employed by him at Kaiga, the police added.
Police has registered a case against unknown persons under sections 380 and 328 of the IPC. Further investigations are in progress. ------------------------------------- HERALD 19/3/04 page 1 -------------------------------------
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