Updated On: 12 February, 2021 08:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Anurag Kamble
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

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.