Karnataka - Bangalore   

`Gold polisher' arrested

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Basaveshwaranagar police have arrested Rajesh Kumar (23) of Ahmedabad who, by posing as gold ornament polisher, had allegedly cheated several women in the city of their gold jewellery in the past one month.

The police said they caught Kumar on Tuesday while he was trying to escape after cheating Anupama S. Achar of her gold ornaments.

The police are on the lookout for his three accomplices, Dileep Kumar, Pappu Kumar and Ajith Kumar, all from Gujarat.

Women who had been cheated by gold polishers can contact the Basaveshwaranagar police to ascertain whether Kumar had duped them, the police said.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Nostalgic homecoming for Kumaraswamy
Kumaraswamy holds out hope for poor students
Proposal to renovate Sahitya Parishat building continues to hang fire
Bosch development centre in Coimbatore
Thin attendance as Sania exits from Bangalore Open
12 Padma award-winners from State felicitated
The `peacehiker' from Slovenia
100 children given scholarships
`It will be a celebration of life'
Find the right people for the right tasks, companies told
BJP finalises list of ten probable ministers
Man with criminal antecedents hacked to death
Saving lives on busy highways
`Bhagwani Kisan Mela' to be held on March 3, 4
CBI arrests bank fraud accused
Attending bonfire parties in style
Restrictions on lorries on Bellary Road for three days
Two youths murdered near Nelamangala
`Gold polisher' arrested
Kalam to visit city on Sunday
Around the City
In Bangalore Today

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu