{
  "id": 15630223,
  "title": "Bhopal Crime News: 75-Year-Old Woman Held Hostage, Grocer's Gold Chain Snatched In Separate Incidents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/bhopal-crime-news-75-year-old-woman-held-hostage-grocers-gold-chain",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-19T16:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/bhopal-crime-news-75-year-old-woman-held-hostage-grocers-gold-chain-snatched-in-separate-incidents"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A grocer in Saket Nagar, Bhopal, had his gold chain stolen by two masked men on Sunday evening. The suspects approached the shop, asked for a bottle of water and shampoo, and then snatched the gold chain when the grocer turned around. They fled the scene on a motorcycle. The police registered a case and are investigating CCTV camera footage from a nearby house.\n\nMeanwhile, a 75-year-old woman, Kalabai, was held hostage and robbed in Gunga area of rural Bhopal. On Saturday night, while her family members were away, two masked men entered her home and threatened her with death. They took her to an inner room and forced her to hand over a sum of Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 in cash and jewellery. Additionally, they removed her ornaments worth Rs 2.5 lakh. The woman could not seek help as the house is near a well with no other houses nearby. The police registered a robbery case and are searching for the suspects.",
  "summary": "Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A 67-year-old grocer’s gold chain was snatched by miscreants in Saket Nagar, while a 75-year-old woman was allegedly held hostage and robbed of cash and jewellery at her house in the Gunga area of rural Bhopal. Police have registered cases and launched investigations into both incidents. In the first incident, two masked men targeted grocer Shivprasad Acharya in Saket…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}