A daring shopkeeper in India fought back when a veiled woman came into his shop and pulled a gun out in an attempt to rob it on Tuesday 24 May.

The gun, fortunately for the brave man, turned out to be fake.

The incident took place at a shop in Palghar district of Virar city in western India's Maharashtra state.

CCTV footage showed a woman looking at jewellery when suddenly she pulled out a gun from her carry bag and started to threaten the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper, initially stunned and compliant, suddenly jumped across the counter and grabbed her.

Tugging her by the hand and the veil, he dragged her out into the street where another man helped restrain her.

The Devanarayan jewellery shop man, Devlal Gujar, later handed her over to police.

The woman is said to work in a bar on Mira Road and the weapon was reportedly a gun-shaped cigarette lighter.

"We are investigating her background," said Raju Mane, a senior police inspector at Arnala Marine Police Station.

A daring shopkeeper was seen fighting with a veiled woman who came to a jewellery shop for looting with a fake gun in western India's Maharashtra.

The incident took place at a shop in Virar city of the Palghar district on May 24.

Visuals, captured on CCTV camera, showed a woman looking at jewelleries at a shop when suddenly she pulled out a gun from her carry bag and started to threaten the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper initially was not moving much and did what the woman told her to but suddenly jumped across the table and held her hand and veil.

He was constantly pulling the veil she was wearing.

According to reports, a woman tried to rob the Devanarayan jewellery shop when the brave shopkeeper, Devlal Gujar, showed his daring and fought with the woman and handed her over to the police.

The gun with which she was threatening the shopkeeper was fake. She works in a bar on Mira Road.

A case has been registered against the woman at Arnala Marine Police Station. The fake gun she brought was a cigarette lighter.

"We are investigating her background," said Raju Mane, senior police inspector, Arnala Marine Police Station.