Mumbai: Rs 28 lakh bracelet sold by con woman in honeytrap recovered

MUMBAI: The City Crime Branch has recovered a

diamond-studded gold bracelet

worth Rs 28 lakh that con-woman Sapna alias

Lubna Wazir

had sold to a jeweller in Andheri after taking it from another jeweller in Bandra.



Wazir, who was arrested early this month for allegedly extorting Rs 3.25 crore from a sugar factory owner after honey-trapping him, had taken the bracelet from the Bandra jeweller without paying him.

Police said that they recovered the bracelet from Andheri jeweller Shailesh Jain. Jain admitted that Wazir had sold him the bracelet for Rs 10 lakh, police said.

Sources said Jain also told them that in the past, too, he had purchased gold ornaments from Wazir. The police are likely to make him a witness in the case.

The Crime Branch unit 10 had last week arrested Wazir for duping a Bandra jeweller. He said that Wazir, posing as a celebrity, came to his shop on Turner Road bought some jewellery to win his trust.

Later, one day, she arrived in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes, and on the pretext of showing jewellery to her husband, she took a diamond-studded gold bracelet worth Rs 28 lakh and never returned it.

“She started giving false excuses and later refused to give any money,” said an officer.

The jeweller later lodged a complaint with the Bandra police.