Jewellery shop thefts: 4 West Bengal women arrested in Kochi

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, July 13, 2013: Four women from West Bengal were arrested from a jewellery shop at Kochi when  they had been to the shop to  rob gold ornaments  in the guise of customers. Reports said  during interrogation, they have  confessed that they were also involved in thefts from gold shops in Mangalore and Bangalore.

The four  arrested are Mumtaz Begum (50), Yaseen Sheikh (54), Nebia Bivi (45) and Ameena Sheikh (55). It may be recalled here the police have so far not made any headway into the investigations into the theft of jewellery from the Gold Palace and Tanishq jewellery shops in Mangalore.

 

Reports said the Kochi police have seized Rs 1.5 lakh cash and gold ornaments from the women.

It is said they were arrested from the Malabar Gold showroom at MG Road Kochi where they had been on the pretext of customers. However, an alert salesman on seeing them was reminded of a theft  by  a group of women in March 2011. When the CCTV footages confirmed that it was  the same group, the police were informed and the five  trapped on the spot.

The women posed as if they were from affluent families and spoke fluent English. It is suspected that  they might have stolen gold worth about Rs 1.5 crores until now.