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Mumbai: How WhatsApp helped arrest a conwoman

Alert jewellery store owner recognises woman from photo shared on WA group when she visits his shop, contacts jeweller she had cheated, who calls the police

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Sonam Devi Gupta, the accused, is a Taloja local

Sonam Devi Gupta, the accused, is a Taloja local

Thanks to a picture circulated on a WhatsApp group, a Navi Mumbai jewellery store owner was able to get a woman who cheated him arrested. CBD Belapur police arrested the 24-year-old  woman after an alert Taloja-based jeweller recognised her from a picture on a WhatsApp group of his fraternity. Arrested on February 6, the woman was released on bail on Wednesday.

On the evening of January 9,  the woman with a toddler went to Anmol Jewellers in CBD Belapur. The police said she told owner Madanlal Mehta, that she had a gold pendant which she wanted to exchange for a gold ring. Mehta asked his employees to check the purity of the gold in the pendant. The employee checked it and said it was gold. Mehta gave the woman a 2.620 gm gold ring worth Rs 15,000.

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