Vadodara: While surfing Instagram stories, 26-year-old Pinkesh Parmar had seen a short video of a jewellery shop being looted in some city of the country.
Taking a cue from the video, Parmar had executed a robbery in a jewellery showroom in the Khodiyarnagar area of the city on Wednesday. The crime branch sleuths arrested Parmar and his three accomplices late on Wednesday night and recovered the three robbed gold chains too. Pinkesh told he police that his three accomplices were under debt and hence they decided to rob Vallabh Darshan Jewellery shop that is located on the ground floor of Shreeji Plaza. “We scanned the CCTV footage of the incident and noticed that the customer sitting inside didn’t give react at all when Pinkesh entered the shop and robbed the gold chains. We grilled him for some time and he spilled the beans,” said Jaydeepsinh Jadeja, DCP (crime).
Video grab of the incident which occurred in Khodiyarnagar
VADODARA: It was one of the fastest robberies that ever took place in the city. A jeweller lost his gold ornaments worth lakhs of rupees in just two-and-half seconds!
The incident occurred in Khodiyarnagar on Wednesday afternoon when Ronak Soni was sitting behind the counter in his jewellery shop.
An unidentified man walked into Vallabh Darshan Jewellery shop wearing a hoodie and jeans at about 12.30 pm. Soni was busy showing some gold ornaments to a customer. The accused casually approached Soni and then threw chilli powder on him. Before Soni and an employee sitting next him could react, the accused picked up three gold chains weighing about 30 grams and ran out of the shop.