Mumbai, April 20 -- A conman posing as a Nagpur engineering student allegedly duped passengers at Mumbai airport by claiming he had lost his flight ticket and lacked money. Airport police have registered an FIR against the accused and suspect that he has cheated at least three to four people in a similar manner. The case came to light after a Pune-based sales manager, Akshay Gawade, 31, lodged a complaint. Gawade alleged he was duped of Rs.16,000 on March 21 after he landed at Mumbai domestic airport from Kolkata following an official trip. Gawade told police that around 12.30pm, soon after stepping out of the domestic arrival gate, he was approached by a man who introduced himself as Nilaboyina Srigiridhara Aditya. The accused appeared distressed and claimed to be a student of VNIT, Nagpur, showing a purported college ID card. He told Gawade that he had lost his ticket and urgently needed money to travel to Hyderabad. Believing him, Gawade transferred Rs.16,000 via Google Pay after scanning a QR code shown by the accused. However, when Gawade followed up two days later by texting him on Whatsapp, the man failed to return the money. Gawade kept texting him about the money and eventually the accused blocked his number without repaying the amount. "When Gawade checked the entry of the money sent to the said person through his Google Pay history, he found out that the UPI ID of the person was darivemula3@ptyes," a police officer said. Gawade then sought to verify the details with VNIT, Nagpur, and shared a photograph of the ID card which he had clicked on his mobile. The institute replied that no such student was enrolled and said it had received similar complaints from at least three other victims. Gawade then mailed the reply from the institute to the Airport police on March 29. Following which an FIR was registered by the police on Saturday. "We are scanning CCTVs and sought details from the bank to get details of the account holder to which the money was credited, which will help us to track the accused," said the officer....