A woman was duped of gold jewellery worth Rs1 lakh by two unidentified men in Kumar Mohalla under Bairagarh police station area on Saturday. According to the police, on Saturday two persons approached the victim Pankaj Rajput of Kumar Mohalla and told her that they have expertise in jewellery cleaning.
After getting assured that the two could clean the gold jewellery she provided two gold necklaces, gold ear rings and gold finger rings. As soon as the gold jewellery was provided to the two miscreants, they put the jewellery into a pressure cooker filled with water and added turmeric powder into it.
They closed the vessel and gave it to the victim and asked to heat it over the gas stove. She took the vessel and heated the box accordingly but was shocked after opening the vessel as the jewellery was missing. Before she could raise an alarm for help the two miscreants escaped from the area. Following the incident a complaint was lodged with the Bairagarh police by the victim.
In the complaint victim has claimed that when the accused were putting the jewelry she was told to bring some other item and after which the two instructed to keep the vessel close she was not aware of the contents inside the vessel. The victim has raised suspicion that when she went to bring the item they might have removed the gold jewellery.
Victim has claimed that necklace, ear rings and finger rings of gold worth Rs1 lakh were taken by the two miscreants. After the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 406 and 34 of the IPC against the two miscreants and have started further investigation.