Pune: Two people on Monday morning offer lift to the elderly pair in Chandni Chowk in their car and robbed their gold ornaments worth RS1.5 lakh before leaving them near Kivale, along the Pune-Mumbai toll road.
The residents of Kasba Peth and his 60-year-old wife walked a bit far on the Roads of the Expressway service to reach the police station on Jalan Dehu and submitted FIR.
Ramekar Yogesh Sub-Inspector from Dehu Road Police said, “The elderly human was running a jewelry business from his home in Kasba Peth.
On Monday afternoon, he and his wife went to the banquet hall at Bavdhan to attend the wedding,” Ramekar said.
They have rented an autorickshaw from Kasba Peth, but the driver has dropped them at Chandni Chowk.
“They are waiting for public transportation to reach the hall, about 2 km from Chandni Chowk,” said Rutekar.
He said a white car stopped near the pair around 11am.
The person sitting next to the driver asks the elderly man where they want to go.
When he told them that they would go to Bavdhan, the suspect told him that he would drop them to the hall because he and the man in the driver’s seat went in that direction.
“This duo drives a car to the freeway instead of going to Bavdhan after the couple sits in the car,” Rutekar said.
The old jewelry businessman, because of fear, did not ask the duo where they left.
The suspects stopped the car along the toll road in Kivale after driving around 20 km from Chandni Chowk.
“The duo threatened to raise up a partner and release two gold chains and rings collectively worth RS1.5 lakh from the old man’s wife and leave,” said Rutekar.
He said the complainant could not record the car registration number.
“He told us that the duo was around 35 years old and spoke at Marathi,” said Ramekar, added that the police Dehu Road had decided to install the board along the Pune-Mumbai toll road and the highway to remind people that they should not take it or offer lift to / from unknown people.