High drama followed when a 23-year-old girl complained that unknown people have tied her and made away with Rs 20 lakh cash and Rs 10 lakh jewellery. Much to the surprise of everyone, police found that the complainant herself was one of the people who committed robbery in her house alongwith her boyfriend.
The incident happened in the Seelampur area on Tuesday night and within 12 hours, the Northeast district police worked out the case.
AK Singla, DCP (Northeast) said that the arrested accused have been identified as Shabana (23) and Mohammad Anish (34). The accused confessed that they met two-years-back during the time when Shabana was pursuing a beautician course. Eventually, they fell in love and got secretly engaged. This year, when the girl got engaged to another man and was about to get married in November, she hatched a plan with Mohd Anish to commit robbery at her own house.
She had meticulously planned the crime and confessed that they thought of putting the blame of robbery on the groom’s family.
The senior officer said that on Septemeber 19, at around 9 pm, an information of robbery at a house at Welcome in Seelampur was received through Police Control Room. Shabana, the complainant, stated that she along with her younger sister were alone at home. Her parents had gone for shopping articles for her marriage which is scheduled to be solemnized in November this year. At about 5.30 pm, two unknown persons knocked the door of their house and asked about her father. She told that her father was not at home, the unknown persons said that they wanted to deliver the invitation card of marriage. On asking, they replied that they are from Kabir Nagar. She opened the door of stairs assuming these are genuine persons as some of their relatives of their family resides in Kabir Nagar. Both of them asked for a pen to write name on the invitation card. When she turned back for pen, both of them came to first floor and one of them shut her mouth and another bolted the room of second floor where her younger sister was studying. Thereafter, both of them asked for keys and valuable articles. She refused saying that she had no knowledge. They tied her legs and hands and shut her mouth with dupatta. They opened the almirah from their own keys and robbed the cash and jewelry kept in the locker of the almirah. They vanished with about 20 lakhs robbed cash and jewelry articles of worth rupees 10 lakhs.”
Investigators said that the technical records of all family members were scanned. Shabana was found to be behind this robbery. Ultimately, robbed cash and jewelry have been recovered from the house of Mohd Anish.