High-flying fraudster grounded

Mumbai: It was high drama inside the Delhi-Mumbai Air Deccan flight on Thursday night that landed at the airport. A police team stormed the aircraft and took into custody passenger Rajesh Mishitri. Mishitri’s fault: He had made trips to Delhi and Mumbai allegedly using the credit card of one Anjoo Narayan, a Juhu resident.
Narayan, who holds a Gold Card from Hong Kong Bank, was surprised when she got a call from the bank on 28 October if she had done some payment through the Internet and had done some tele-marketing.
On enquiry, Narayan found out that her card had been used in different names, including a woman to book airtickets on King Fisher, Sahara and Deccan airlines.
A determined Narayan, whose husband is working away, made several rounds to the Juhu police station and different airlines’ offices to track down the culprit.
On Thursday, she stumbled on the name of Mishitri in the Air Deccan office records, in which he used her card to travel from Mumbai to Delhi. As luck would have it, Mishitri was returning to Mumbai on the same night.
Sensing an opportunity, Narayan immediately rushed to Additional Commissioner of Police Bipin Bihari’s office.
04/11/06 Nirmal Mishra/Daily News & Analysis

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