Woman, aide who drugged & robbed brick-kiln owner in Mohali held

The police have arrested Moga native Harjeet Kaur and Jalandhar resident Ishav Bhardwaj for allegedly drugging and duping a brick-kiln owner of his gold ornaments worth Rs 12 lakh and Rs 70,000 cash in Mohali two weeks ago. The police said Harjeet was arrested from Rajpura, while Bhardwaj was nabbed while trying to flee to Shimla. Both were produced in the court and sent to five-day police remand.

Harjeet, alias Aditi, alias Navdeep, and her accomplice had allegedly duped a 32-year-old man, Ankit Jaggi, a resident of Ropar, of his gold ornaments worth Rs 12 lakh and Rs 70,000 cash after drugging him in a hotel.

The complainant had reported that he was the owner of a brick-kiln, and came in contact the girl through a dating app. He fixed a meeting with her on December 13 around 10:30 pm near the Jubilee Walk shopping mall in Sector 70. While having coffee in his car, the girl asked him to get a cigarette. While he was out to get a cigarette, she mixed something in his coffee.

As planned, they booked a room in Hotel Gill Lodge. After I lost consciousness in the room, the girl took away 6.5-tola gold chain, 5.5-tola gold bracelet and 5-gm ring he was wearing. She took him to the car and fled the scene in a white-coloured Punjab registration car along with a boy.