Two miscreants under the garb of police tried to con an aged woman in Khatiwala Tank locality on Thursday morning and made away with her gold bangles and other ornaments.
The incident occurred at around 7.30 am near Mahakal temple square in Khatiwala Tank area.
The victim identified Sita Devi (60), wife of Ramchandra, a resident of Sindhi Colony had left her home on foot to have a darshan at a nearby temple of lord Shiva, when two miscreants under the garb of police jawans riding a un-named Pulser motorcycle stopped near her, asking her that she should not walk with her ornaments as miscreants are roaming around.
The woman said that she would take her ornaments off after reaching home.
later, both the miscreants forced her to immediately take her gold bangles out of her hand.
When the victim refused to do so, one of the miscreants caught hold of her from the back, while another miscreants took out gold bangles worth about Rs1lakh from her both hands and fled the incident site on their motorcycle.
Soon after the incident, the victim had raised an alarm, however, before the locality people could have gathered there, the miscreants had already made their escape good.
After the incident, the victim went to Juni Indore police and lodged a complaint. CSP Shashikant informed that the accused had looted the victim in the garb of police jawans.
He said the police have registered the case and launched manhunt to nab the accused.