A housewife emboldened by her first successful attempt at stealing was nabbed thanks to an alert constable, who stopped her before she could steal again. The woman had stolen a gold jhumka from a jeweller recently. The jeweller, Mukesh Soni, 31, has a store at Narayan Nagar, Ghatkopar West. On October 16, when he was unwell and hadn't been to the shop, he got a call in the evening from his brother Ganesh, saying a gold jhumka weighing 7 gm and worth Rs 21,000 was missing from the display. Mukesh asked him to check CCTV footage.

Ganesh found that a woman who had visited around 2.30 pm with a 10-or 12-year-old kid, had asked for a jhumka to try it on, and hadn't returned it when another customer arrived. The Ghatkopar police registered a case of theft under IPC Section 380 against the unknown woman. "We circulated the CCTV footage to all officers and constables, asking them to look out for this woman," said an officer from Ghatkopar police station.