{
  "id": 12726058,
  "title": "Mumbai Crime: Fake Doctor Allegedly Drugs 45-Year-Old Woman On Shirdi Bus, Flees With Gold Jewellery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/mumbai-crime-fake-doctor-allegedly-drugs-45-year-old-woman-on-shirdi",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T21:37:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-crime-fake-doctor-allegedly-drugs-45-year-old-woman-on-shirdi-bus-flees-with-gold-jewellery"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A 45-year-old woman, Shobha Mahesh Phase, was allegedly drugged and robbed on a Mumbai-Shirdi bus journey. Phase, a resident of Chembur, boarded the Nehru Nagar-Shirdi bus from Kurla at 12:45 pm on October 1 for a medical follow-up in Kopargaon. An unidentified man, believed to be around 35 years old, approached her and sat beside her. He told her he was a doctor travelling to Nashik and offered to give her tablets, claiming she had dark circles and acidity. Phase fell unconscious after consuming the tablets at around 2:30 pm. Her brothers found her unconscious at Kothari Hospital in Kopargaon the next day and informed her of the incident. The bus conductor had contacted her family. The suspect stole Phase's 18-gram gold mangalsutra and a pair of gold earrings, each weighing around one gram. The case was registered at the Nehru Nagar police station, which is now investigating the incident. CCTV footage from the route is being examined to trace the suspect, suspected to be a habitual offender targeting vulnerable passengers.",
  "summary": "Mumbai, October 7, 2026: A 45-year-old woman was allegedly drugged and robbed of her gold jewellery by a fellow passenger who posed as a doctor during a Mumbai-Shirdi bus journey. The Mumbai police have registered a case against an unidentified suspect and launched a probe. According to the FIR, the victim, Shobha Mahesh Phase, a resident of Sindhi Society in Chembur, was travelling to Kopargaon…",
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}