THANE: Two people posing as policemen have been booked by the city police. The accused tricked a 70-year-old woman and fled with her jewellery worth Rs 2.25 lakh.The police said that the incident occurred at the Kharegaon toll naka. The officer informed that the senior citizen was travelling in an Ola cab from Kalyan and was heading towards her house located in Balkum. At around 11am, two persons wearing masks came riding on a bike and intercepted the cab.The duo identified themselves as policemen and said that a crime had taken place in the vicinity and warned the victim against wearing glitzy jewellery. They asked her to take it off, the police said. At the same time two other fake cops intercepted another car and did the same thing which the victim noticed, and she was convinced that the accused duo were telling the truth. The victim removed her gold chain as well as bangles and rings too. One of them gave her a paper and told her to keep the valuables in the paper. The unsuspecting victim gave the jewellery to the man and they pretended to handover the paper with the jewellery back to her. Sensing something amiss the victim checked the paper and found that the jewellery was missing and they had replaced it with fake gold bangles. Hence, the victim registered a case of cheating with the Kalwa police station. We also published the following articles recentlySpain seizes ancient gold jewellery stolen from Ukraine worth $64 millionSpain has seized ancient gold artefacts worth 60 million euros that were stolen from Ukraine. The thieves were caught trying to sell the items in Madrid. The 11 pieces, including jewellery such as necklaces, bracelets, and earrings, date back to the Greco-Scythian period. The artefacts were exhibited in a Kyiv museum and smuggled out of Ukraine in 2016. The items had forged documents claiming they belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Three Spanish and two Ukrainian nationals were arrested in connection with the investigation.Jewellery worth Rs 12 lakhs put in trash by the owner, heres whyA man in Madhya Pradesh, India, hid his valuable jewelry at the bottom of his garbage bin while on a trip to Bhopal. Unfortunately, a municipal worker emptied the bin, leading the man to believe his jewelry had been stolen. He contacted the authorities, who launched a search and eventually found the jewelry at a recycling plant. The man expressed his gratitude and learned a valuable lesson about keeping his valuables safe.Elegant demi-fine jewellery is the novelty this NavaratraAs the number of chain-snatching incidents in Pune rises, people are turning to demi-fine fashion jewellery as a safer and more affordable alternative to real gold. This type of jewellery is made using a balance of metals to make it look like real gold, but at a fraction of the price. Designers are using surgical stainless steel and sterling silver as the base material, which is then plated with 18-carat gold. The thicker gold layer in demi-fine jewellery makes it virtually indistinguishable from pure gold.

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