In the name of cleaning jewelleries, a woman was relieved of a gold chain with a pendant worth `50,000 by two unidentified miscreants at Bank Colony under Jehangirabad police station area on Monday.
According to the police, on Monday, two persons approached the victim Shagugta Khan and Mohammad Yunus in Bank Colony and introduced themselves as experts in jewellery cleaning. After the couple was assured that the two could clean jewellery Shagufta brought a gold chain with a pendant for cleaning and handed over the chain to the miscreants.
As soon as the gold jewellery was provided to the two miscreants, they put the jewellery into a vessel of metal filled with water and added some chemicals 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 vessel according to the instructions provided by the miscreants 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 Jehangirabad police by the victim.
In her complaint victim has claimed she was not able to spot that the miscreants have removed the jewellery and the vessel was empty, it was only found when she checked the vessel and found the jewellery was missing.