For a few nerve-wracking days this week, a small-town jewellery shop found itself in the middle of a mystery straight out of a detective novel, minus the detective, and minus, as it turned out, any human culprit at all. It began with a routine stock count. Ten gold rings and two chains, gone. No broken locks, no signs of forced entry, nothing out of place. For a shop owner, few things trigger panic quite like missing gold, and this one was no exception.
"Everyone started wondering whether a customer had taken them, but there was no evidence of that either. We couldn't understand how this had happened," Vishwas, the shop's owner, told PTI, recalling the chaos that followed.
