Conmen loot woman in city

The Bowenpally police has started a manhunt to trace three unidentified persons who decamped with jewellery of a woman in New Bowenpally by posing as police constables. The suspects looted the jewellery after warning the victim, Sarojini, about the presence of thieves in the area.

Sarojini, 67, is a resident of New Bowenpally and is staying with her kids after the death of her husband, who retired as a head constable from the police department. On Thursday, she was proceeding to her brother’s house in Parandham colony. While waiting for an auto rickshaw on NH 7, she noticed three strangers.

Later, one of them approached her and identified himself as a police constable. He further told the victim that the police was looking out for suspects moving in the area. He later took her to two of his accomplices, the police said.

One of them told her to wrap her gold jewellery in a paper and hide it in her bag. He then took jewellery from her under the pretext of packing and gave her another jewellery packet in a paper and fled from the scene. Later, when she opened the packet, she found imitation ornaments. She lost a chain and bangles weighing 8 tolas worth around `2.5 lakh. A woman, who allegedly killed her two minor sons last week in order to elope, and her paramour surrendered before the village revenue officer on Thursday. They were subsequently handed over to the police. The murder of the two children — Dinesh, 6, and Rithvik, 4, — in Ramakuppam mandal in Chittoor district last Friday had shocked the district.

The mother, Pavithra, told the police that her children were an obstacle for her relationship with the neighbour Vemanna. On learning of her affair, her family had told her to think of the children. Vemanna also saw the children as hurdles and encouraged her to kill them, she alleged. Speaking to mediapersons, Ramakuppam circle inspector Rajasekhar said, “Both of them surrendered at the VRO in Ramakuppam. She confessed that she had hanged her children to death.”