LUDHIANA: Four miscreants posing as cops stole two jewellery parcels, worth Rs 12 lakh, from a Chandigarh man. Even as the incident took place on June 23, an FIR was lodged on Wednesday as initially the police were finding the case suspicious.
Mukesh Kumar, 35, a resident of Sector 22-B, Chandigarh, said in his police complaint, “I work with a company that supplies gold and diamond jewellery. On June 23, I had come to Ludhiana in the company’s chauffeur-driven car. I was to deliver 10 jewellery parcels in Sarafa Bazaar here. The driver parked the car on the main road and I started walking towards the narrow lanes of Sarafa Bazaar with my backpack containing the jewellery parcels. On the way, a man stopped me and claimed he was a cop. He said his three seniors standing nearby will frisk me.”
After checking him and his bag, the accused allowed him to go. “When I reached my destination to deliver the parcels, I found two packets missing,” he added. Suspecting that the men stole these from the bag while frisking it, he lodged a police complaint.
Division 1 police station ASI Amreek Singh said, “The parcels contained gold ornaments of approximately Rs 12 lakh. The case was first investigated and then an FIR was lodged, as partners of the company Mukesh works with had recently separated.”
Police have the footage of CCTV cameras that have captured the accused. However, it is not clear.
A case has been registered under sections 379 (theft) and 34 (act done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC against four accused.
