Bengaluru: J.P. Nagar police on Tuesday detained an HR executive who posed as an IPS officer and his girlfriend on charges of stealing gold chain from a jewellery shop.
Kishore Kumar(24) from Devasandra Main Road and a native of Chennai and his girlfriend Kavita(22) from Mandya are the arrested.
Kishore was working as an HR Executive with Samsung and Kavita was a Process Executive with Infosys.
According to police the duo were living together for the last two years and planned to get married in a few months. Kavitha had celebrated her birthday last week and had asked Kishore to gift her something expensive. On Monday Kishore promised his girlfriend to present a gold chain and hence went to a jewellery shop belonging to Suresh Kumar, on Sarakki Main Road.
“In the showroom, Kishore introduced himself as an IPS officer to the sales executive. They first purchased a silver bracelet and then asked the executive to show gold chains. The executive took out nine gold chains and showed them. On the pretext of selecting one, Kishore managed to steal a gold chain weighing 16 grams, while Kavita engaged the executive in conversation. They then said they did not like any of the chains and made a move. But the alert executive found that a chain was missing and held them back. The staff immediately alerted the police, who rushed to the spot and found a gold chain in Kishore’s pocket,” the police said.
The couple was immediately arrested and booked under theft case.
