» Baba Cheating And Stealing From LifeStyle Owner Identified
Baba Stealing, Stealing From LifeStyle Owner Found
The police has identified the fake baba who deceived Madhusudhan Reddy and looted Rs 1.33 crore from him in the name of prayers, as an old accused Shiva.
The police has identified the fake baba who ran away by deceiving a person - the owner of the LifeStyle superstores Madhusudhan Reddy - and looting Rs 1.33 crore from him in the name of prayers, on Thursday.
The police identified the scamster as an old accused Shiva - he had duped Reddy and run away with the money after giving drugs to the family members.
The police said Shiva alias Shiva Swamy and Shiva Baba had also duped other people, mostly in Tirupati. From Vendagopally village in the Kuppam mandal in the Chittoor district, he turned a fake baba and fooled various people in Tirupati in the past two years. He once looted Rs. 63 lakhs in the name of a Laxmi Devi pooja. He also deceived people saying he would give Rs 2 lakh for Rs 1 lakh.
A family which was deceived by Shiva had filed a case against him in the Alipiri police station in Tirupati, causing him to lie low for some time. He came to Hyderabad two days ago upon the invitation of the LifeStyle boss.
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