Gold chain worth Rs1.30 lakh was stolen from a 50-year-old woman in a moving city bus on Saturday. A case of theft was registered by Jehangirabad police. According to the police, the victim Manju Sharma while on her way to home in a city bus found that her gold chain was missing from her purse near Jehangirabad area.
A complaint was lodged with Jehangirabad police and in the complaint, victim has claimed that she had gone to attend a religious discourse at TT Nagar Dussehra ground and on her way back to home, she boarded a city bus from Rangmahal Talkies square. When the bus reached Jehangirabad area, she found that the gold chain was missing.
Victim claimed that she kept her gold chain in her purse to safeguard it in the crowded bus, but later near Jehangirabad, she found that the chain of the purse was open and found that the gold chain was missing. She alighted from the bus and lodged a complaint with the Jehangirabad police. The victim is a resident of Housing Board Colony in Nishatpura. She had told the police that the gold chain weighing around 50 gm was worth Rs1.30 lakh. The police have registered a case under section 379 of the IPC and have started further investigation. In the investigation, police would take help of the CCTV cameras installed in the low floor bus.