Posing as cops, men dupe woman in Lucknow

LUCKNOW: Two men posing as policemen duped a woman of gold ornaments in Bhootnath market in Indiranangar on Monday. The victim, Shayra Bano, works as a cook in homes. The accused stopped Bano near Bhootnath market around 10:30am. The conmen told her that a murder had been committed in the area.
“They asked me why I was wearing gold ornaments when women have been told by police not to move around in jewellery as they may be targeted by robbers. They persuaded me to put wrap the jewellery in a paper,” Bano said. While one of them kept talking to Bano, the other took jewellery from her on the pretext of wrapping it in the paper. Later, when Bano unwrapped the paper and she found stones instead.

CO Ghazipur Deepak Kumar Singh said, “The accused’s modus operandi is warn, take, change and flee.”