Biker offers lift to 70-year-old woman in Nagbhid, flees with gold and cash worth Rs 43,000

A case of cheating has been registered at Nagbhid police station in Chandrapur district over a complaint by an elderly woman. According to the complaint, an unidentified biker offered the 70-year-old woman a lift and allegedly took her gold jewellery and cash by sleight of hand. Police said the loss totals Rs 43,000.

Police said the victim is Anjana Govinda Bobate, 70, a resident of Ekara Bunj in Brahmapuri tehsil. She had come to her grandson Vinayak Ghyar's home in Bamhani village in Nagbhid tehsil for Diwali.

On November 8, Amol Dongarwar of Ekara Bunj phoned the grandson's mobile. He said her ration had arrived and that she would have to come the next day to collect it. On November 9, at 7 am, Anjana took a bus from Nagbhid to Ekara Bunj to collect the ration.

After collecting the ration, she was standing at the Ekara bus stop around 11 am to return to Nagbhid when a biker arrived. When she told him she had to go to Nagbhid, he said he was headed that way too and seated her on his bike.

The accused is alleged to have stopped the bike on a dirt track in the forest near Gowarpeth village, while travelling from Ekara via Mendki and Balapur towards Rajoli Bond. He said he needed to relieve himself. He then frightened the woman, saying robbers roam this forest road, and told her to put her necklace into the sack of wheat she was carrying.

As she was putting her gold chain and mangalsutra into the wheat sack, the accused said, "Wait, I will put it in, give it to me." He took the pouch she had and put it in the sack himself. He then left, saying he was going to relieve himself. He did not return for a long time. When the woman felt through the pouch and the wheat sack, the gold jewellery and cash were missing.

Police listed the stolen items as a 1-gram gold necklace worth Rs 3,000; a 10-gram gold chain worth Rs 30,000; a 3-gram gold mangalsutra worth Rs 9,000; and Rs 1,000 in cash kept in the pouch. The total is Rs 43,000.

The case was registered at Nagbhid police station under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in the early hours of November 10, 2026. Sub-inspector Anil Velhar Dongarwar is investigating the case, and further investigation is under the guidance of police inspector Ramakant Kokate. The accused has not been identified so far.