{"id":25118,"date":"2022-08-06T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=25118"},"modified":"2022-08-06T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:56:56","slug":"25-year-old-man-posing-as-a-pilot-held-for-duping-more-than-300-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/25-year-old-man-posing-as-a-pilot-held-for-duping-more-than-300-women\/","title":{"rendered":"25-year-old man, posing as a pilot, held for duping more than 300 women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Police on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old man from Sector 43 for allegedly duping over 300 women, most of them working as cabin crew with private airlines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suspect was identified as Hemant Sharma, a resident of Gangtok, Sikkim. Police stated them he moved to Gurugram 2 years ago and took an apartment for rent and began duping women after pretending to be an airline pilot.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Preet Pal Sangwan, the assistant commissioner of police (crime), stated Sharma admitted to the crime during questioning and also informed that he has 2 years of experience working as ground staff at the Bangalore airport<\/a> and as a front office executive at a five-star hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHe was no longer interested in working and wanted to earn easy money. He created over 150 fake profiles on social networking sites pretending to be a pilot and began sending friend requests to women cabin crew executives,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sangwan told after befriending them, that he would send them small gifts and flowers but would never meet them in person. \u201cSharma spent more than 2 months on developing relationships and then began duping them by pretending to get stuck in a hotel as he lost his credit card, or that someone pickpocketed his wallet, or by claiming that the bank blocked his accounts citing verification after he said a theft.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharma operated to change his mobile number every time he duped a woman and told the others that he had to purchase a new SIM as his mobile phone was stolen, stated to police. He had operated over a hundred mobile numbers so far and had bought more than five dozen SIMs before leaving from Bangalore, told police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case was registered at Cyber police station<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Police told the fraud arrived to the fore after a woman, a resident of Golf Course Road, complained that a man duped her of \u20b91.2 lakh after befriending her on social media by posing as a pilot. A case was registered at Cyber police station, East under sections 420 (cheating), 419 (impersonation), and section 66 of Information Technology act in June, stated police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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