Ornaments, cash and valuables stolen from jewellery shop

LAHORE: Thieves took away gold jewellery, cash and other valuables worth Rs12.8 million from a jewellery shop in Shalimar Police Station limits Saturday. They broke open locks with a cutter and took away jewellery worth Rs8 million, cash and prize bonds worth Rs4.7 million, a wrist watch worth Rs45,000 and two diamond rings worth Rs150,000. Police have registered a case on the complaint of the shop owner Ahsan Arshad. A robber in police uniform deprived a citizen of Rs50,000 and £790 in Shalimar Police jurisdiction. The victim Khalid was on his way when a robber intercepted him on the pretext of checking and deprived him of the cash while the police registered a case.