In the name of polishing gold jewellery a 31-year old woman was duped to the tune of Rs50,000 by two miscreants from B sector area under Govindpura police station area on Saturday.
According to the police, the victim, S Sudha was cheated by two miscreants who escaped with gold jewellery. Victim provided gold jewellery for polishing purpose but the miscreants duped the victim of the gold jewellery.
A complaint was lodged with the Govindpura police and in her complaint she claimed that two miscreants approached her and offered her for polishing utensils and jewellery.
The two initially offered to polish aluminium and steel utensils and after cleaning those utensils they offered to polish silver bangles and assured that they could clean and polish gold jewellery the victim provided the accused with a gold chain and a pair of gold ear rings.
She was told to provide a utensil put water, salt and turmeric powder and boil the water for a few minutes and later open it and in the meantime the two miscreants left the house. When the victim opened the utensil she was shocked to find that the jewellery was missing. The victim claimed that the gold jewellery were worth `50000.
At the time of the incident the victim’s husband who works at a private company was at work. The victim works as a domestic help.
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.