On the pretext of polishing gold jewellery, two women were duped to the tune of Rs 50,000 by two miscreants near Raj Hotel under Ratibad police station area on Sunday. The miscreants have been captured in the CCTV footage, said the police.
According to the police, the victim Aarti Shreevas and cheated by two miscreants who escaped with gold jewelry. Victim provided gold jewelry for polishing purpose but the miscreants duped the victim of the gold jewelry.
A complaint was lodged with the Ratibad police and in her complaint she claimed that two miscreants approached her and her mother-in-law Kamla Shrivas and offered for polishing jewelry using a chemical which they were selling.
Initially they provided a copper utensil and silver anklets which the two polished and assured victim and her mother-in-law.
After polishing they asked for polishing of gold jewelry and the victims provided them with gold jewelry and accused asked for bringing remaining jewelry, when the victim went for bringing the jewelry the accused escaped the spot with the jewelry.
After sometime when the two brought the remaining jewelry they were shocked to find the two accused missing and after failing to find the accused they lodged a complaint with the police.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and have started further investigation. During the investigation police have spotted the two accused in a CCTV footage and based on the footage search for the accused has been started.
The two were well dressed to evade suspicion of fraud.