Theft during Doctors Conference: Rs 3 lakh jewellery stolen from Geneticist

Bengaluru: With no valid authorization, a man last week entered a by-invite-only doctors’ conference in the city’s five-star hotel and robbed a Mumbai- based geneticist of over Rs 3 lakh worth of her gold jewellery. The crime was confirmed via CCTV footage, after which the doctor filed a complaint with High Grounds police.

The victim, Dr Manjeet Mehta was one of the speakers at the two-day conference “Biomarkers: From Research to Commercialisation” organized at Le Meridien hotel. She was listening to the lectures when the theft took place.

In her complaint, Dr Mehta stated that she had removed her jewellery and placed it in her purse, which was kept by her side. After the day’s scheduled lectures, she returned to the hotel room and found that the jewellery was missing from the purse.

“I immediately alerted the organisers. Examination of the video clippings showed a man stealing it from my purse while I was still there. To my shock, he was also present in the participants’ photograph. He stole the gold in less than 10 minutes,” Mehta told TOI. The thief didn’t come back the next day of the conference.