Kotwali police have booked a woman for stealing a gold chain worth Rs 90000 from a shop at Sarafa Market on Saturday; victim lodged complaint after checking CCTV footage of the theft on Sunday. Police said that a woman who arrived at the Kanhaiyalal Jewellers shop of the victim and posed as customer left the shop after stealing a gold chain worth Rs 90000. The victim lodged complaint after they counted their jewelry stock on Sunday and failed to find a gold chain in the shop. The victim Dinesh Panjwani in his complaint stated that when he failed to find gold chain in the shop he checked CCTV footages of the previous day and find that a woman who visited shop escaped with the gold chain.
It could seen in the footage that when the victim turned to check weight of one of the gold chain which he showed to the accused woman she stole a gold chain and later left the shop without buying anything.
The victim told the police that the accused asked for his father who was not present and later to gain confidence started to speak with the victim Sindhi and escaped with the gold chain. Police said that the CCTV footage would be used to nab the accused woman and other nearby installed CCTV footages would be checked for investigating other accomplices of the accused.
The police has registered the case under section 379 of IPC on Sunday against an unknown woman.