The Thane police arrested the wife of a Marathi television actor for allegedly cheating a 72-year-old retired professor of Rs. 3.8 lakh on the pretext of making a fixed deposit. She posed as the support staff of a nationalised bank and allegedly transferred the amount to her account.
The senior citizen holds an account in a bank branch in the Kasarwadavali area of Thane. He had gone to the bank with cheques and a passbook for transfer of an amount. It was there that the TV actor’s wife introduced herself as a bank employee and offered to help him.