Cops bust all-women gang which ‘routinely’ targets jewellery shops

Meerut | Monday | 24th September, 2018

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He then informed the Nagar-Kotwali police station and a search drive was soon launched,” said deputy superintendent of police, Harish Bhadauria. Meerut: Days after three burqa-clad women decamped with 1 kg gold from a jeweller’s shop in Muzaffarnagar, police on Monday busted the gang and recovered half of the stolen yellow metal. Three women, posing as customers, had decamped with gold worth Rs 40 lakh from a jewellery shop in the busy Bhagat Singh road of Muzaffarnagar on Thursday evening. However, the kingpin of the gang is still on the run. Officers have also arrested two women and a man for the crime from a village in Meerut.According to cops, the women have confessed that the sensational daylight robbery was a “routine crime” for them and that they would always wear burqas to cover their faces..