Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jun 9: Three incidents in which men, who faked like saviours, took away ornaments from women, were reported from different parts of the twin-districts on Tuesday June 8. The policemen believe that that all these incidents were the handiwork of the same gang.

Two men in the garb of policemen approached a woman named Dhanalakshmi (74), wife of Narayan B Bhandary from Nellikatte, near Puttur Lord Mahalingeshwar temple. They warned her that many thieves were roaming around the town, and that it was not safe to wear gold ornaments. They collected 10 sovereigns of ornaments worth around Rs 1.5 lac from her, acted as if they were packing it, and then placed it in her bag. On reaching home, she found that the packet handed over to her contained sand, the woman said in a complaint filed in Puttur police station.

The same trick was played on Yashoda Kharvi on Ram Mandir Road in Kundapur. She lost her ‘Karimani’ chain of 3.5 sovereigns in the same fashion, and she found that the paper packet given to her by the three thieves contained manganese ore.  She filed a police complaint thereafter.

Girija, residing near Valencia in the city, was approached by two strangers when she got down from a bus after leaving her grandson to school. They told her that there was commotion on the road through which she wanted to move, and warned her to place the gold ornaments in her bag. The lady said in a complaint filed at Pandeshwar police station, that the strangers took away ornaments worth Rs 48,000 by deceiving her when she was placing ornaments into her bag.