Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Sep 1: Yeshwantpur police have arrested a woman and confiscated gold ornaments weighing 439.32 grams valued at Rs 20.2 lac. It is said that she had posed as a pilgrim, visited Kukke Subrahmanya, and stolen ornaments belonging to some devotees.
The arrested woman happens to be Mamata (38) from Andhra Pradesh. Her husband, who also is an accused, is at large. The police are hunting for him, said the policeman attached to Yeshwantpur police station here.
Mamata's first husband had died two years back and she had thereafter, married a close relative recently. After the marriage, the couple had decided to visit Dharmasthala and Kukke Subrahmanya to pay obeisance at the temples and return to Bengaluru to lead a happy life. Both went to Dharmasthala on August 19 and visited Kukke Subrahmanya temple the next day. When the two were having food in a hotel at Subrahmanya, they noticed that some tourists who were having lunch in the neighbouring table had placed their bag on the table and gone away to wash their hands. As they needed money, the accused picked the bag and escaped from there. They opened the bag in a desolate location and found to their surprise that the bag contained high value gold ornaments. They returned to Bengaluru, rented a house in
Laggere here, and began to live.
The couple had pledged a part of the jewellery they had stolen and were leading life together out of the money so got. On August 25 morning, they visited Yeshwantpur to sell gold at S K Jewellery shop on Yeshwantpur first main road and were moving around in a suspicious manner. The policemen on patrol duty who observed them took the woman into custody for questioning. Seeing this, her husband ran away. On taking the lady to the police station and questioning her, the police found ten receipts about gold ornaments pledged in shops, and two rings weighing four grams each. The lady revealed that the ornaments were stolen from Kukke Subrahmanya. The police are trying to nab the missing accused. The police said that once the man is found and arrested, they will come to know whether the accused were involved with other criminal activities.