While prices of the costliest metal Gold is soaring to all-time high rates, the news of robbers terrorising and sensational robbery at our Indian Jewellery showrooms is worrisome. There was a time when Wembley’s Iling road used to shine with the Jewellery showrooms of those who migrated from Africa. However, today there are very few Jewellers there. The soaring prices of gold have increased the incidents of thefts and robberies.
Recently, one such scary incident took place at ‘Kenya Jewellers’. ‘Kenya Jewellers’ stands as a Jewellery showroom at the corner of Chaplin road and Iling road for the last 42 years. A video of a sensational heist that took place there on Sunday, November 14 early morning at 3.25 am has taken everyone by a huge shock. We also got the news on Monday through this video. In the video, out of the two motor cars that came through Chaplin road, one Audi car was first parked against the nearby shop by ramping the footpath of Kenya Jewellers. After that, a big black Land Rover takes reverse to stop against Kenya Jewellers. After waiting for a while to let vehicles on the road pass, the Rover, spotting an opportunity, drives in reverse gear at full speed to break the metal shutter and doors of the Jeweller showroom.
As soon as the automobile broke the doors to enter the showroom, four to five people in black hoodie coats came out. They are seen in the video boarding the car, carrying black dustbin type containers filled with jewellery boxes. After watching this sensational video we contacted brothers ‘Ajitbhai’ and ‘Kamleshbhai’ who own the ‘Kenya Jewellers’ showroom. According to Ajitbhai Mulji’s conversation with ‘Gujarat Samachar’ Managing Editor on Tuesday morning, “the robbers came in Audi and Land Rover with stolen number plates. The robbers who came with a pre-plan banged the Land Rover with the showroom so hard that it separated the entire shopfront of the showroom, consisting of the shutter and two doors, from its frame. As the burglar alarm started immediately, the robbers quickly leaving with filled dustbins were also seen by a bus driver who was passing by.
At that time, Manubhai Upadhyay, who owns a phone shop at Wembley Highroad, was passing by to drop his relatives to the airport. As he stopped by on seeing the heist, the robbers waved their hands at him, shouting to leave the place." According to Ajitbhai, “Since it was Diwali time, it consumed a lot of time to put the jewellery on display every day. Hence, we did not keep the jewellery inside the safe vault. This seems to be a closely studied preplan. We have fitted a machine that will fill the showroom with dense fog in just a few seconds of the buzzing of the alarm.
The fog could be seen in the video. The robbers’ visibility was zero in that dense fog. Probably they thought that there was some fire, so they left behind three dustbins and ran away in the Audi car. But, they stole all the gold jewellery displayed on the right side wall and the counters along with the tray on which they were displayed. Police reached the crime scene in 3 minutes. According to the police, “the robbers took the 406 through Alperton to run away. Out of the three dustbins left behind, one was purchased from Heinz.”
Ajitbhai describes this as their most dangerous experience since 1980, during which the showroom has been continuously operating at this place. Robbers had attacked the showroom in 2015 also. At that time, though they were able to break the first door with a hammer, they could not break the second door. Currently, as the showroom is completely demolished, they have kept it closed by covering the front with planks. The police are investigating the matter. We are also busy in meetings with the loss adjuster for valuation. Believer in the eternal religion, Ajitbhai Mulji, also informed of his strong coordination with editor C. B. Patel on the committee of ‘Harekrishna-Watford Temple’ campaign.
