Rs 40 lakh worth gemstones stolen in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Unknown offenders stole Rs 40 lakh worth gemstones from the house of a businessman-cum-astrologer at LB Nagar. The incident which happened on June 16, came to light on Friday.
On June 16, B Murali Krishna, 38, a businessman from Vijayawada, staying at Anand Nagar in Nagole lodged a complaint with LB Nagar police that on June 10, he returned from Mumbai with Rs 40 lakh worth gemstones including some diamonds to sell them to customers in Hyderabad.
Murali Krishna kept the gemstones in his second rented house at Shiva Shankar Colony in Bandlaguda after selling some of them to a customer in Hyderabad on June 11.
On June 16 night, Murali Krishna’s cook Sujatha’s husband, Anjaiah noticed that light was switched on and alerted his wife. “Sujatha immediately informed Murali Krishna who was in the other house nearby,” LB Nagar inspector V Ashok Reddy said.