Revamped VB Gandhi Road and Rutherfield Lane will be open by January 25, in time for the Arts Festival

Revamped VB Gandhi Road and Rutherfield Lane will be open by January 25, in time for the Arts Festival

- Linah Baliga

MUMBAI: The Juhu police arrested four men on Saturday for allegedly cheating a housekeeping staff member of filmmaker Rohit Shetty. The men had been on the run for nine months. According to police, the gang of four, identified as Prakash Vyankatesh Naidu, Navnath Somnath Sathe, Rameshwar Rajendra Prasad Chaudhary and Raju Rajesh Maurya, had cheated the employee, Dharmjit Ramanresh Singh, 28, by luring him into buying a lottery of 25 lakh after assuring him that he would win.

The police on Saturday got a tip-off that the four were coming to Vile Parle, after which API Ranjit Chavan and his team laid a trap and arrested them. The officer said Singh, who lives in Santosh Nagar, Hanuman Chawl, Goregaon, has been working as a housekeeping employee of Rohit Shetty for the past two years. On April 22, 2024, around 1 pm, he was approached by an unknown person at the Vile Parle railway station. He told Singh that he had a lottery ticket of 25 lakh that was sure to hit the jackpot. Another person then pretended he wanted to buy the ticket but did not have the money. At that same time, another person came up and encouraged Singh to buy the ticket.

Trusting them, he agreed and ended up transferring ₹25,000 from his account to the account of a certain Dinesh Shankar Jaiswal. When he did not win as assured, he realised that he had been cheated and approached the police.