LUCKNOW, Feb. 11 -- A burqa-clad woman stole jewellery worth Rs.55 lakh from a shop in Sarafa Bazar of Chowk area in Lucknow.

The incident was reported on Sunday afternoon while the CCTV footage of the same has also surfaced now.

According to police, Krishna Rastogi runs a jewellery shop by the name of Kirdhari Lal Indra Prasad. He told them that a woman reached the shop at 12.30pm on Sunday on the pretext of jewellery and asked the shopkeeper to show her a gold ring. A staff salesman Bhuvan Tripathi displayed the whole box in front of her.

"While looking at the jewellery, she engaged the employee in coversation and when his attention was diverted, she slipped away with the jewellery pieces. When the employee started putting the jewell...