A 59-year-old woman was robbed of her diamond necklace, diamond ring and gold jewelery worth lakhs of rupees at knife point in Pride City under Katara Hills police station area late in the night on Friday.

Robbers entered the house of Asha Chowkikar (59), who lives here, at around 3 in the night on Friday and escaped with the jewelery brandishing a knife.

CCTV footage of the incident has also surfaced, in which the robbers are seen entering before the incident and escaping later.

According to the information, the robbers entered the colony by cutting the wire fencing. First they searched the houses. Then they entered the woman's house and robbed her.  After committing the crime, they fled through the same route from where they had entered. The incident has been captured in the CCTV camera installed near the woman's house. In which four robbers are seen wearing monkey caps.

According to the complaint of the elderly woman, the robbers had sharp weapons and rods in their hands. By using a rod, they broke the lock of the main gate and then entered the house. They came straight into her room and threatened not to make any noise and asked for whatever she was having otherwise she would be killed.

They took away diamonds and gold jewelery from the house. These included gold earrings as a gift at the younger son's wedding. The robbers collected the jewelery and tied it in a pillow cover kept at home and escaped.

Not only this, the miscreants broke the mobile phone by throwing it on the ground. Later they took it along, which was recovered from the bushes near the house.

Police station in-charge said - it is theft, not robbery, 3 teams engaged in search

Katara Hills police station in-charge Jai Kumar said that three teams are busy searching for the accused. No force was used on the woman.

According to the victim, the incident was of theft. For this reason an FIR has been registered under sections of theft. The woman lives alone in the house. One of his sons works in Bengaluru and the other in Delhi.