Fake cops in Bangalore dupe women of jewellery

Two incidents of miscreants stealing women’s gold jewellery by posing as policemen and ‘helping’ them keep their jewellery ‘safely’ in their bag were reported in the city on Wednesday.

In the first incident, three men in plainclothes stole a 60-year-old woman’s gold jewellery, weighing 75 grams, on Indiranagar 100 Feet Road.

They introduced themselves as policemen and told the victim, Danalakshmi, that a senior police officer, standing at some distance, wanted to meet her to alert her as a crime had taken place on the same road.

In her police complaint, Danalakshmi said she walked with the trio for some time but the senior ‘policeman’ was missing. When she questioned them, they advised her to remove the gold jewellery and put them in her purse. She obliged.

However, the ‘policemen’ told her that she had not kept the jewellery properly and offered their ‘help’, to which she agreed.

After some time, when Danalakshmi found that her gold chain, bangles and earrings were missing.

A similar incident was reported in Ramamurthynagar police limits. Madhu, 62, told the police that at 11.30am, when she was going to her daughter’s house, three persons posing as policemen stopped her at Horamavu Cross.

They told her that a murder had taken place in the area and advised her to keep jewellery in her bag. The trio ‘helped’ her in this task.

Madhu discovered that she was duped when she reached home and found her gold chain, bangles and earrings, weighing 60 grams, missing from the bag.

Chain snatchingTwo unidentified miscreants snatched the gold chain of a 21-year-old woman working in ITPL, on Wednesday evening. The chain, weighing 25 grams, was worth Rs50,000.

The victim, Sneha, told the police that after she was en route to her house and at 5.45pm, two men on a motorcycle came from behind and snatched her chain, near Horamavu signal.

She said they were wearing helmets. They managed to flee from the scene.