Mathura, Ahmedabad women gangs come to Siddhivinayak just to rob devotees

They had come from Ahmedabad and Mathura to rob those visiting Siddhivinayak mandir

Dhanalakshmi, Jyoti and Laudo

The Dadar police on Thursday arrested three women in their forties from two separate gangs who robbed devotees visiting the Siddhivinayak temple during the Ganesh festival. The police have recovered three mobiles phones and cash of Rs 25,000 from the three women and are looking for other members of their gangs.

The women have been identified as Dhanlakshmi Parmar and Jyoti Parmar from Ahmedabad and Laudo Kaur from Mathura. The modus operandi of the Mathura gang was to snatch the bags that had gone through the scanner and escape with them in the crowd, while the Ahmedabad women told the police that they had read about the temple being decorated with imported flowers and how people came from all over to see this. They thought it would be a good place to rob people.

Laudo Kaur had come to the temple with a friend. "While people put their bags in the scanner, she would pass them to her friend who would flee with them,” said Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dadar Division, Sunil Deshmukh.

After receiving several complaints from devotees, the Dadar police checked CCTV footage and caught Kaur.

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