Hyderabad: Gang posing as I-T officials decamp with 1.7 kg of gold from jewellery shop

Fake I-T officials seized the mobile phones of the workers at the workshop and collected 17 gold biscuit each weighing around 100 grams from them

Hyderabad: Posing as Income Tax officials, a gang of criminals carried out a ‘raid’ on a jewellery workshop in Secunderabad and walked away with 1,700 gm gold, on Saturday afternoon.

According to DCP (North) Deepti Chandana, around five to six persons came to the workshop located on the fourth floor of the building at Pot Market under Monda Market police station and introduced themselves as I-T officials.

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On pretext of conducting a search, they seized the mobile phones of the workers at the workshop and collected 17 gold biscuit each weighing around 100 grams from them. The fake I-T officials then locked the door of the workshop from outside and left.

The gang members were speaking in Marathi, Hindi and Telugu to the workers. “Some insider might have tipped them about the presence of gold at the workshop. Five teams are formed to nab the offenders. All available technical tools and human intelligence is being used to detect the case,” said Deepti Chandana.

Senior police officials and clues teams visited the spot and examined the scene. The police analysed the feed of the surveillance cameras network installed in the surroundings of the workshop and the building and identified the persons.