Cheese Chor: ‘Customer’ dupes Mumbai dairy dealer, steals cheese worth Rs 43,000 | Mumbai News – DairyScoop

According to the police, the fraudster rang up the businessman, who was in his office on Delisle Road in Lower Parel at 2.11 pm on February 5, and placed an order for 84 kg Amul cheese and 48 litres of Amul cream and asked the complainant to get them delivered at his alleged shop named Global Dairy Products, near KEM Hospital, in Parel.

“I calculated the total cost of the goods and told him it would cost Rs 52,764, after which the caller informed me that he would confirm the order shortly,” the complainant stated in his complaint.

The man contacted the businessman the next morning, confirmed the order, and claimed he would pay the bill in cash after delivery. The man sent the order via WhatsApp to gain his trust.

“As I trusted him, I loaded the goods, which included 84 kg of Amul cheese in seven boxes of 12 kg each and 48 litres of Amul cream in four boxes of 12 litres each, into a tempo and sent them with my worker to Global Dairy Products around 11 am,” the complainant told the police.

Subsequently, the businessman called the suspect to inform him when the order was dispatched and reminded him to hand over the cash to his worker.

However, as the worker could not locate the shop, he contacted the businessman, who in turn called the “client”. The suspect allegedly instructed them to stop near the ITC Hotel, where a man would come to collect the delivery.

“The man took the worker to Global Hospital and asked him to leave all the seven boxes of cheese in front of a Chinese hotel on the footpath. The worker followed his instructions and went with the man to deliver the remaining 48 litres of Amul cream. The stranger promised the worker that they would be handed over the cash at the shop,” a police officer said.

However, at the shop, the suspect claimed he had forgotten the keys and left to get them. As the suspect did not return, the worker began to sense something was wrong and informed his employer, who then attempted to contact the caller.

“As the phone was switched off, the businessman instructed his workers to return to the location where they had dropped off the cheese. They discovered that the products were missing,” said an officer.

The dairy dealer later visited the spot in person and made enquiries with the local residents and shop vendors, but did not find any lead. He then approached the NM Joshi Marg police station and filed a complaint.

The police have recorded a cheating case under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).