Man poses as customer, steals wristwatch worth Rs 25.4L from Bengaluru store | Bengaluru News
Bengaluru: A man, pretending to be a potential buyer, visited a luxury watch boutique in UB City recently and fled with a wristwatch worth Rs 25.4 lakh. Search is on for the suspect, identified as Shoaib, a resident near Lal Bagh, based on the CCTV footage from the store.According to the complaint filed by B Prabhakaran, store manager of Ethos Summit, the stolen watch is a Gerald Charles (Maestro 2.0 Ultra-Thin-Set). On June 8 between 11.15am and 11.30am, a well-dressed man walked into the store. He spoke English and Hindi. He asked sales executive Sonali to show him wristwatches priced above Rs 20 lakh.He tried a Gerald Charles (Maestro 2.0 Ultra-Thin-Set) watch on his wrist, and in the meantime, another person walked into the store. When Sonali got busy attending to the new customer, the accused fled with the watch. The staff searched for him in the building but in vain.Cubbon Park police have registered a case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) section 305 (theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship, etc). Shoaib went incommunicado, and his family members were communicated about the case, police said.When TOI reached out, the store manager refused to comment.A similar incident took place in the Ethos Summit store at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Jan. A 34-year-old Brazilian, posing as a customer, stole two wristwatches worth Rs 3.3 lakh. The accused, Ravi Gama De Sa Ravi, was flying back to his country when he visited the store on Jan 4. He paid the bill for three watches and stole two.
