Bengaluru, Two men were arrested for allegedly befriending women by falsely claiming links to influential people and promising to resolve their problems before stealing their gold ornaments, police said on Friday.
The woman had removed her gold mangalya chain and kept it in her handbag. Police recovered 130 grams of gold ornaments and a gold ingot, along with a mobile phone, collectively valued at ₹ 19 lakh, they said. The matter came to light after a resident of Gollarahatti lodged a complaint at Yeshwanthpur Police Station on July 12. As part of the investigation, police gathered information from various sources and, based on credible information, arrested the two accused near the KSRTC Bus Station in Majestic on August 9, the officer said. Based on the information provided by them, police recovered a gold ingot from the jewellery shop and a gold chain from the lodge between August 10 and 14, he added. The accused were produced before a court on August 17 and remanded to judicial custody, they added.
During the discussion, the accused allegedly stole the chain and fled, a senior police officer said. They allegedly told police that the stolen gold ornaments had been kept at a jewellery shop in Davanagere and at a lodge in Sumanahalli, where they had been staying.
