chennai an unidentified man posed as a cop and escaped with the mobile phone of 14yearold boy after taunting him at a mall in vadapalani on sundayv jithesh gokul a class ix student from t nagar visited the mall with his friend to watch a movie police said a middleaged man approached him while he was taking selfies with his friend and snatched the phone from him on the pretext of checking his phone the man accused the boy of taking photos of unsuspecting women and asked him to visit the vadapalani police station and collect the phone an investigating officer said jitesh believed he was a real cop and approached us after he narrated the ordeal we realised he was cheated and registered a case police are checking the cctv footage in the mall to identify the suspect based on the identity of the suspect mentioned by the boy police have launched a search for him