Two women were caught red-handed stealing valuables worth Rs 2 lakh from a house in Tagore Nagar under Piplani police station area on Saturday. According to the police, the women were caught and roughed up by the locals while they were stealing valuables from the house.
On receipt of the information, a police team was sent to the area and the police nabbed the two women. later they were taken to the Piplani police station. The nabbed women provided their names as Anita alias Sahni Pardi and Sajan Bai Nat and admitted to four burglaries in the past few months. Three of these were committed in Piplani while the other was committed in Ayodhya Nagar.
Anita is a resident of Ehsan Nagar in Nishatpura while Sajan Bai is a resident of Chola Mandir. The valuables which were stolen by the two were recovered. Revealing their modus operandi, the two women miscreants said that they used to target locked houses and would enter the house by breaking the locks. They used to work as scrap pickers to look for the locked houses and used to steal valuables.