A rare blue Sapphire ring, worth around Rs 1.5 crore, belonging to a caretaker of Vrindavan's Tarash temple has been stolen, police said today.
According to police, the ring was stolen yesterday after caretaker Udayan Sharma forgot it in the bathroom of his residence, which is in the temple complex.
Later when he asked his wife to bring it back, it was found that the ring had been stolen, he said.
Giving details about the ring, Sharma said it was given to him by his maternal grandfather Hanuman Prasad Sharma, who was Diwan in the court of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir ruler Maharaja Hari Singh. Sharma's grandfather had been gifted the ring by the J-K ruler.
He further said that the 15-carat ring has a picture of Lord Krishna with carvings of peacock's feather.
The ring was an example of the artwork on blue Sapphire for which Jammu and Kashmir was famous. It was lost some 200 years ago and now nobody knows this art of engraving on blue Sapphire, he claimed.
Police said, a case has been registered and those present yesterday, when the theft took place, were questioned today.
