Conmen pose as I-T staff, steal jewellery worth ₹1cr

A group of five men, one wearing a Delhi Police uniform and others wearing civilian clothes, posed as officials of the Income Tax (IT) department and made away with over a kilogram of gold, worth over ₹1 crore, from a jewellery-making workshop in Karol Bagh last week, police said.

- Hemani Bhandari

A police officer aware of the matter said that the thieves also took away the DVR disc of the CCTV camera system before leaving the premises. The incident took place last Thursday.

“The incident was reported around 4pm from Dev Nagar, where jeweller Madan Mandal runs a small workshop on the fourth floor of a congested lane in Block 2. Mandal said that he six to seven workers were present at the time of the ‘raid’,” the officer said.

According to police, Mandal said that the men arrived together and introduced themselves as officials conducting a GST-related inspection.