Robbers dupe two in the guise of police

HYDERABAD: Two persons including a woman were robbed of their valuables by strangers posing themselves as policemen in separate incidents since Friday. In the first incident, a 52-year-old woman was robbed of gold jewellery worth over Rs 25,000 by two persons posing themselves as policemen at Jumerat Bazar on Saturday.
The Shahinayathgunj police said that victim Vijayalaxmi was going to a provisional store when the incident took place.The accused threatened Vijayalaxmi saying that Rs 500 fine will be imposed if she was found wearing gold jewellery and asked her remove the same so that they would wrap the ornaments in a paper in order to avoid the fine. Accordingly, the accused posing as police took the ornaments from the woman and instead of wrapping the jewellery in the paper, they wrapped a stone and handed it over to her. They then disappeared. Vijayalaxmi realised she was duped only after she checked the paper and found only a stone.
In another incident, a car driver was duped by ten persons posing themselves as policemen and got away with his owner''s Ford Ikon car at Somajiguda on Friday. A case was registered based on the complaint by the car driver G Satyanarayana. He said that ten persons came in a Tata Sumo van claiming themselves as policemen and forcibly took the keys and fled away with the car.