Mysuru: A novel way of conning shopkeepers in city by a group of three of four veiled women has come to light now.

The women partially veiling their faces approach a shopkeeper speaking Hindi, they purchase an item and present a note of Rs. 2,000. When the shopkeeper returns the change, the woman start bargaining and seek a further reduction of price when the shopkeeper denies, the women kick up an argument and  return the items purchased with the change and  get back the Rs. 2,000 note. They leave in a hurry and when the shopkeeper checks the change it would be short by a sizeable sum.

The victim Mamatha Kamath owing a fancy store near Siddappa Square here told Star of Mysore that two women entered her shop recently along with a child and purchased a few items for Rs. 185 and presented a Rs. 2,000 note. She said that she returned a change of  Rs. 1,815.

Continuing, she said that the women were joined by another woman and all of them vociferously sought a reduction of price which was denied and added that they returned the items and the change and took back the Rs. 2,000 note.
Mamatha said that when she checked the change returned by the women, it was short by Rs.1,000 (two notes of   Rs.500). Later, Mamatha called up Police Control Room and informed the matter, it is learnt.