Two thieves posing as sages made a woman unconscious with intoxicating powder and stole around 300 grams of gold ornaments, Rs 50,000 cash and 1,500 Singapore dollars from her house in Chhat village of Punjab’s Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened around 2.30 pm when the woman, Mandeep Kaur was alone at home with her one-year-old daughter.
Mandeep Kaur said that she had gone to the bathroom to take a bath and when she came out, she saw a monk standing at the gate of her house. She went to give him biksha (alms), but he threw powder on her face and she fainted. She regained consciousness after about 20-25 minutes and found that her daughter was lying there but the valuables were missing.
The woman raised an alarm and people gathered, after which she lodged a complaint with the police. Police have started an investigation into this matter and are checking the CCTV videos installed in the surrounding street to identify the thieves.
This is not the first incident of theft in Chhat village, where the incidents of theft are increasing day by day. The villagers have banned beggars and junkers from roaming in the village and have decided to put up boards on all the entries in the village to warn them. They said that this was a big theft and that they would not tolerate any more such incidents.