Woman robbed of jewellery in Coimbatore

The police quoted the victim V. Banumathi of Vellakinar Pirivu as saying that the youth came to her while she was standing outside her house in the evening.

Two youth aged about 25 years robbed a 55-year-old woman of her gold jewellery weighing close to 17.5 sovereigns, worth more than Rs. 3.5 lakh, in her house at Thudiyalur on Saturday.

The police quoted the victim V. Banumathi of Vellakinar Pirivu as saying that the youth came to her while she was standing outside her house in the evening. “Her two sons are abroad and her husband Vellaisamy, a financier, was not at home,” the police said.

Accused

The accused introduced themselves as Ashok and Deepak and that they were friends of her younger son V. Prasanth, a software engineer in Canada.

“It is learnt that the accused asked her for Prasanth’s contact number, claiming that they could not reach him though the social networking in which they used to contact him,” the police said.

“Banumathi went inside the house, when the two followed her in, tied her with a rope and decamped with her gold chain, ear rings, bangles and other gold jewellery,” the police added.

The Thudiyalur police registered a case under Section 392 (punishment for robbery) of the Indian Penal Code.