Lucknow: A woman was conned of her ornaments by miscreants who impersonated as cops and intimidated her in the name of checking drive in view of a murder, in posh Gomti Nagar area.
This is the third such incident in the past one week.
According to the FIR, Poonam Singh was returning from a doctor’s clinic in Vivek Khand when two men on bike intercepted her and told her that a woman had been murdered and that the policemen were conducting checking.
They said that a ban had been imposed on wearing gold ornaments and they gave a wrapper to put all the jewels in it.
Following their instructions, Poonam took off all her ornaments and put it in the wrapper. However, when she reached home, she found stones wrapped in it.
Last year, a gang was active in the city which posed as crime branch officials and targeted women with their ornaments.
The police had busted the gang after which there was a lull in such cases, but the gang is back, it seems.
Earlier, on June 22, an unidentified man had conned one Kiran Yadav of her ornaments by intimidating her in the name of police checking in Mahanagar. Kiran was returning to her home when the miscreant intercepted her.
“The imposter did not allow me to move without putting on the ornaments. I was scared and could not unchain the gold chain and he helped me in taking it off. He then took the ornaments in his hand and gave them back to me after wrapping them,” she told police.
The victim said when she opened the sachet it was filled with small pieces of stones.
Similar incident had taken place with another woman in the Naka area on June 20. On June 11 and 12 also, two women were conned in similar manner.
Additional DCP, East Zone, Syed Abbas Ali said that they are working on such cases in their zone.
“The suspects seem to be in their 40s and use a normal bike and not a sports bike. They only target elderly women going in lonely stretches. They have intensified patrolling of cops on bikes,” he said.
–IANS
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