Bairagarh police have booked two fraudsters who escaped after cheating a woman of her jewelry in Bairagarh on Monday.
The victim Dulari Bai was returning home after withdrawing pension from the bank. The fraudsters lured the woman by telling that the bundle of paper kept in the cloth was a stack of currency notes which were total Rs 2 lakh.
After this, after giving them the bundle of paper, they escaped with the jewelry. Police have registered a case against unknown accused. Police have checked CCTV footage around the incident spot and found two suspects in the footage.
According to the police, Dulari Bai (54) is a housewife. On February 27, at around 12 noon, she was returning home after collecting a widow pension of Rs 600 from Bank of Baroda.
She reached Vikramaditya Dairy where a boy approached her and told that he had Rs 2 lakh in a bag and to keep it with her as he would return after dropping his friend on the bus to Indore. In the meantime another boy came and asked the victim to keep jewelry in the same cloth and keep it with her.
The victim agreed and kept the gold earring, gold chain, gold ring, gold necklace and put it in the cloth of another boy. After this the boys gave the bag containing the currency notes.
After that both those boys left and failed to return. The victim checked the cloth kept in the bag. Instead of gold ornaments, stones were found in the handkerchief and later on opening the cloth kept inside his bag and instead of the currency notes a bundle of paper was found inside.