Date:04/03/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/03/04/stories/2005030416950500.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Patient relieved of jewellery

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 3. An unidentified man, posing as lab technician, relieved a woman patient of six tolas of jewellery by diverting her attention in M.J. Market branch of Care Hospital on Wednesday.

Laxmikanthamma (65) of Ameerpet was admitted in the hospital a couple of days ago. At 11 p.m., the middle-aged man walked into her room. Saying she would be operated the next morning, he asked her to remove her jewellery. The woman kept her ornaments beneath the pillow. After sometime, when she removed the pillow, she saw that the ornaments were missing, the Abids police said.