Elderly woman looted by 3 posing as cops in Vasant Kunj

Three persons allegedly cheated a 58-year-old woman of her expensive jewellery by fraudulently using a Delhi police identity card in South Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Sunday.

The victim, identified as Jan Vati, a resident of Sector D in Vasant Kunj, runs a business. At around 5 pm while she was walking from Nelson Mandela Marg towards DLF Ambience Mall in Vasant Kunj, she was stopped by three persons who had their motorcycles parked nearby. One of them allegedly took out an identity card from his wallet that looked like a Delhi police ID and immediately put it back. The men said they were from the Vasant Kunj police station. “The accused asked the woman to take off her gold jewellery that she was wearing as on Saturday night at the same place a woman was stabbed by someone and robbed of her jewellery,” said the police.

“When the woman took off her gold bangles, ring and chain and was about to put it in her bag, one of the accused asked her to put them on a piece of paper he had produced in front of her.” The minute the woman put her gold jewellery on the paper, the trio got on their motorcycles and fled from the spot with the jewellery.

The woman got shocked and it took her sometime to realise that she had been cheated. “She started panicking and quickly ran to the Vasant Kunj police station and complained about the incident,” said the police. “The jewellery she lost is worth over Rs 2 lakh. While one of the accused seemed to be in his mid-twenties the other two looked close to 40 years old.”