Jewellery worth Rs.3 mn looted in Haryana

October 6th, 2009 SRINAGAR - People in Srinagar are buying artificial jewellery instead of gold jewellery as it gives them more variety and is cheaper. "The big sets that you buy you just dump the things in the lockers.

September 9th, 2009 JAIPUR - Income tax officials on late Tuesday seized jewellery worth Rs 93 lakhs during a raid on the office of a private locker agency in Ganpati Plaza complex in Jaipur. During the raid, IT officials found the jewellery, 1000 dollars in cash and some papers.

August 22nd, 2009 TIRUPATI - The Andhra Police has detained a priest of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthaanam (TTD) Board here on Saturday after he allegedly mortgaged temple jewellery of worth Rs nine lakh. The TTD officials as well as the police have questioned the priest.

June 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Mumbai court will hear a bail plea of Sheetal Mafatlal, president of Mafatlal Luxury, today. Sheetal was on Monday sent to judicial custody till June 12 by the court.

June 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - Sheetal Mafatlal, president of Mafatlal Luxury, was on Monday sent to judicial custody till June 12 by a Mumbai court. She was detained on Sunday upon arrival from London at the Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport for allegedly carrying undisclosed jewellery and diamonds worth several lakhs of rupees.

June 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Models walking the ramp in exquisitely designed necklaces, inspired from tribal culture, formed part of the jewellery show that left the fashion lovers enchanted here last evening. 'Adi-Kriti', the collection of gold jewellery, captured the essence of the age-old tribal culture of the eight northeastern states.

May 18th, 2009 MOHALI - The Punjab police have asked banks and big showrooms in the state's Mohali district to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in the wake of recent broad daylight heists in the neighbouring Panchkula town in Haryana state. 'Keeping in mind the increasing number of day-light robberies in Panchkula, we have directed the banks and other showroom owners here to install CCTV cameras in their premises,' Jatinder Singh Aulakh, Mohali's Senior Superintendent of Police, told IANS Monday.

April 17th, 2009 HISAR - It's 'better late than never' for the Haryana police. The state police have cracked a case of dacoity 15 years after it was committed in this Haryana town with the arrest of two men.

March 31st, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Three robbers targeted a home in Vasundhara locality of Ghaziabad Tuesday, fleeing with cash and jewelry worth about Rs.250,000. According to the police, the three entered Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) officer Pradeep Srivastava's residence as construction labourers when his wife was alone at home.

March 1st, 2009 GREATER NOIDA - About 15 armed robbers looted jewellery worth Rs.800,000 from a businessman's house in Greater Noida, the police said. The pistol-brandishing robbers barged into the house, and thrashed an employee who was alone in the house Friday morning.

February 27th, 2009 HOSHANGABAD - At least five people barged into a Central Bank branch here in broad daylight Thursday, looted over Rs.200,000 at gunpoint and shot a customer who tried to raise an alarm, police said. The robbery took place at the Pawarkheda branch.

February 6th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Six armed men robbed jewellery worth Rs.3.5 million and Rs.150,000 in cash from a shop here Saturday, the police said. The incident occurred at around 6 p.m.

January 26th, 2009 PANCHKULA - In a broad daylight heist Tuesday, six armed robbers, one in a police uniform, looted a showroom of P.C. Jewellers and escaped with jewellery worth over Rs.1.5 million, the police and salespersons said.

January 7th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Four robbers looted Rs.2 million in cash and jewellery worth Rs.1.8 million from a shop in this satellite town of the national capital, the police said Thursday. According to the police, the robbery was committed in a jewellery shop in Shalimar Garden, an upscale market in Ghaziabad.

January 7th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Markets in this Uttar Pradesh town remained closed Thursday to protest a spate of robberies targeting jewellery shops and other commercial establishments. The traders assailed the state police for not being able to prevent the robberies or arrest the criminals.