NAGPUR: After more than a month-long effort, the Lakadganj police rescued a 14-year-old boy who fled with his maternal aunt’s 50 tola gold to meet the expenses for a sex-change surgery.He was influenced by the ‘ lavish ’ lifestyle of bar dancers as his maternal aunt and the woman, who lured him into opting for sex change operation, are bar dancers in Mumbai.The teenage , a student of Class VIII of a reputed school, fled home with the gold on August 7.Police rescued the boy on September 17 and arrested four persons — Rehana Dhanawat, Imran Shariff, Farooq Shaikh and Prashant Jangde — the next day for instigating the boy to commit the crime. Around 30 tola gold, a two-wheeler and three mobile phones were recovered from them.The four were initially remanded in police custody till September 22 and then extended for two more days after they were produced before a magistrate on Saturday. Jangde was sent in magisterial custody.Rehana was arrested from a house near the city’s red-light locality of Ganga Jamuna.When the teenager fled with the gold, police said, he contacted Rehana who asked him to wait near Quetta Colony here.The boy was kept at Pardi for a few days by Shariff and Shaikh and later taken to Mumbai, keeping the gold in the city itself. The boy was rescued from a rented apartment by Rehana in Mumbai.Rehana, who asked his other three accomplices to sell the gold or mortgage it, used to assure the teenager routinely that his sex change surgery would happen soon as they were in the process to finalize the doctor and an appropriate place to do it in Mumbai.Senior PI Santosh Khandekar said the teenager fled with maternal uncle’s mobile phone on which he ‘searched’ about sex change surgeries on various sites.“The teenager has been shifted to a government shelter home. His intention to have sex change surfaced during investigations when his close friend confided with the cops about his aspirations of leading a rich lifestyle of a bar dancer in Mumbai,” Khandekar said.Police said despite efforts to counsel the teenager he still wants to be with Rehana and go under the scalpel to become a ‘woman’ and shift permanently to Mumbai.Though he denied, the teenager is also learnt to have downloaded an app for finding same sex partners, police said.Police said the teenager was raised by his maternal uncle after his mother moved in with a man. The maternal aunt, whose gold the teenager fled with, has been supporting the family of the maternal uncle who had to take care of a physically challenged sister and mother.“The teenager came in contact with a glitzy life of a bar dancer when he visited his maternal aunt’s house,” cops said.Police said the maternal aunt came to Nagpur from Mumbai on August 6 with the gold which also included around 20 tola of her friend to keep it in a bank locker. They were in the process of renting a vault in a bank when the teenager fled with the gold the next day.