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Thieves pose as policemen, rob 21 lakh worth gold

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Two thieves, one posing as policeman and another as commuter, relieved a jeweller’s employee of gold worth Rs. 21 lakh after subjecting him to frisking at Musheerabad on Tuesday morning.

Forty-year-old Diwakar, working for Coimbatore-based jeweller, J.D. Das, arrived at Jubilee Bus Stand around 5 a.m. and headed to Secunderabad Railway Station.

After performing ablutions keeping his bag in the cloak room, he set out for Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station to catch a bus for Bangalore.

A stranger in his mid 30s approached Diwakar asking him where he was going. When Diwakar said he was going to the bus station, the stranger started walking with him.

Barely they had walked few yards, another person came on a motorcycle, introduced himself as police officer and asked them to sit on his bike stating that he wanted to verify their antecedents.

“The stranger and the person who intercepted Diwakar are apparently members of the same gang and though they acted as if they didn’t know each other,” the Musheerabad Inspector, P. Venkata Ramana, told reporters. The ‘police officer’ drove them up-to Gandhi Hospital, asked them to get down and collected their two bags, including the one belonging to Diwakar in which gold weighing 1.4 kilo was kept.

He started the bike again maintaining that he had to hand over the bags at the police station. On reaching Subhash theatre at Musheerabad, he suddenly stopped and directed them to get off stating he wanted to question them further.

The moment Diwakar got down, the duo rode off.

Diwakar is the second person to be cheated in this fashion in the past few days. Earlier, two persons took away Rs. 85,000 from a trader at Gopalapuram using a similar modus operandi.

Police suspect same gang could be behind the two offences.

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