Mumbai taxi driver uses prank app to cheat shop keepers; arrested

The Meghwadi Police on Sunday arrested a taxi driver for allegedly cheating grocery and retail shop owners to the tune of ₹2.80 lakh by using an e-wallet linked to a prank app.

The app, available on Google play, helps users show that they’ve debited money from their account when they scan the QR code of the recipient even though the actual transaction hasn’t been made.

Police caught Nizamuddin Shaikh, a Jogeshwari resident, while he was making one such ‘payment’ to a shop owner. They were responding to a complaint from one shop owner that the payments made by a customer using an e-wallet did not reach his account. When they started investigation, another shop owner approached them with a similar complaint.