Man arrested for cheating city caterers

Mangalore | Saturday | 15th December, 2018

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Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City police have arrested a person who posed as a prospective customer and cheated several city caterers The arrested person is Rajesh Rao , 45, who would pose as a businessman and place big orders with caterers. After visiting them, he would introduce himself as a businessman and expressed his wish to place a big catering order. Rao was later handed over to the police.Explaining his modus operandi, police said Rao, who speaks fluent English, Hindi and other languages, used to dress well and visit several caterers in city. As a result, he made him sit at the office and alerted other caterers who got conned by him, of being there. However, the catering company owner was present at the spot, and was aware about Rao’s past misdeeds..