CHENNAI: Three persons were arrested for attempt to cheat a petrol pump employee with a fake debt card at Peerkankaranai on Monday. The case has been transferred to the Central Crime Branch for investigation.Sources said three men arrived in a Wagon R car at a petrol station on Mudichur Road at Madanapuram, Tambaram. Asking one of the employees to fill the vehicle with petrol, the trio later claimed that they could not find an ATM centre anywhere and handed over their debit card to the employee. They asked him to give them Rs 4,000, saying that he could withdraw the amount using the debit card and take a 20 per cent commission.The petrol station staff became suspicious, as two months ago a gang had used a similar modus operandi and cheated them of Rs 18,000. Detaining the trio, they informed the Peerkankaranai police, who nabbed the trio. They were identified as Ravi (42) of Choolaimedu, Ezhilarasan (24) of Pammal and Venkatesan (30) of Purasawalkam. Probe showed that the debit card was fake, which the trio had cloned with the help of a skimmer. A laptop and the car were seized by the police. Huge Haul of GoldThe West Zone police arrested notorious history-sheeter Rahul alias Ranjit and seized more than 60 sovereigns of gold jewellery worth `13 lakh at Aminjikarai. Besides, eight persons against whom arrest warrants had been pending in connection with different cases were also nabbed.Scrap Unit Owners HeldCCB sleuths nabbed Gopal Tiwari and Anil Kumar Sagode, joint owners of Scraps India Corporation in Nagpur, in connection with a `20 lakh cheating case. A special team arrested the duo in Nagpur and brought them to the city on Monday.
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