pune on thursday evening two middleaged women entered a jewellery shop in hadapsar and exchanged four goldplated bangles for those made of real gold with surprising ease but when they attempted a similar con at another branch of the same jewellers store on karve road on saturday their luck ran outthe watchful manager of the shop with the help of deccan gymkhana police caught one of the two women however her accomplice managed to escape arrest the suspect kamaladevi chourasiya 40 arrested under section 420 cheating of the indian penal code hails from lucknow in uttar pradeshab mali subinspector of the hadapsar police station told toi that on thursday around 6pm two middleaged women entered the jewellery shop and told an employee that they wanted to purchase some gold ornaments by exchanging their old bangles the women showed four gold bangles to the employee he checked the bangles using a machine their machine failed to identify that the bangles where merely gold plated imitation jewellery after reading the faulty results of the machined the employee confirmed that the bangles were made of pure gold and valued the old ornaments for rs 98000 mali saidmali said that the women then selected gold ornaments worth rs 96000 from the shop and also took cash of rs 2000 from the cashier and left later when the goldsmith in the shop melted the ornaments he found that the bangles were actually made of copper mali saidmali said the goldsmith immediately alerted the manager about it the manager checked the cctv camera footage the images of the women were captured and the manager alerted all the branches across the city the shop owner did not lodge a complaint as he felt that the women may strike again in one of their branches and he could catch them mali saidon saturday around 730pm a woman entered the jewellers karve road branch the manager of this branch had the cctv footage with him and immediately identified her instead of raising an alarm he alerted the deccan gymkhana policeassistant inspector of deccan gymkhana police suyash joshi and his team rushed to the shop by that time the woman had handed over her old bangles to the salesman and was selecting the gold ornaments we caught her then joshi saidjoshi said the woman has revealed the name of her accomplice we have launched a search for her further investigations are on the officer said the arrested woman was produced before court on sunday and remanded to police custody till tuesday