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Bengaluru: A promise of cheap flight tickets turned costly for a 40-year-old woman heading back to Rajasthan as a stranger who claimed to be travelling to the same destination won her trust and allegedly vanished with her gold jewellery worth Rs 7 lakh. A resident of Tonk district in Rajasthan and originally from Davanagere, she came to Bengaluru on Sept 29 to look after her ailing elder sister, who lives in Singapura Layout in Vidyaranyapura, according to a complaint filed by homemaker Pushpa T. On Oct 14, Pushpa went to Yeshwantpur railway station with her brother Ramesh , intending to return to Rajasthan by train. Her purse contained a gold chain, a ring, two silver anklets and approximately Rs 18,000 in cash. He left around 4.15 pm, promising to return, but failed to come back. Growing suspicious after waiting for a while, Pushpa boarded another bus and returned to the bakery around 5 pm. The gold ornaments, weighing around 70 grams and worth over Rs 7 lakh, had been purchased by her in-laws before her marriage 19 years ago, it said.
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When Pushpa said she wanted to travel to Kota in Rajasthan, the miscreant claimed that he, too, needed to reach the same place but had been unable to get a train ticket. When she enquired, he told her that the same man had returned and taken the bag away, the complaint said. However, she was informed that tickets were unavailable. a stranger approached them and asked about their destination While the two were trying to figure out an alternative. The stranger then claimed to work at the airport and offered to arrange cheap flight tickets. He managed to convince her, booked a cab and took Pushpa and Ramesh along to Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). He asked Pushpa and her brother to hand over their identity cards, claiming their photocopies were required. He then took them by bus to a location in Bagalur. The accused asked Pushpa to accompany him to the airport to book the tickets while telling Ramesh to remain near a bakery. Claiming that security checks at the airport would not permit passengers to wear jewellery, he persuaded her to remove her ornaments. She also removed the mangalya chain and bangles she was wearing and kept them in the purse. He placed her purse inside a bag he had brought and left it where Ramesh remained seated. He then took Pushpa on a bus towards the airport. Midway, he got Pushpa off the bus, claiming that his room was nearby and that he needed to collect money to book the tickets. Her brother was still sitting there, but the bag was missing. A case has been registered at Bagalur police station. Download the TOI App.