A 50-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing jewellery and cash from her relative’s house in Khirki Extension when they visited her home for dinner, on Wednesday.
The victim Deepak Kumar approached Malaviya Nagar police station with a complaint that jewellery and Rs 9.60 lakh had been stolen from his house. In the complaint, he reported that on the evening of May 7, he along with his wife had left to visit their relative’s house in laxmi Nagar. When they came back home in the wee hours of May 8, they found that cash and jewelry had been stolen from their house even though the locks of their house and almirahs were intact.
A senior police officer said that during investigation it was clear that an insider or person known to the family had committed the theft because the main door of the house was unlocked with keys and there was no forced entry.
“A police team was formed and local informers were alerted. We questioned several relatives of the complainant, neighbours and security guards in the locality. During the investigation, CCTV footage of the surrounding area was examined and the needle of suspicion pointed towards one Shabnam, maternal aunt of the wife of the complainant,” said a senior police officer.
On Wednesday, a raid was conducted at the house of Shabnam in laxmi Nagar and stolen cash, gold and silver jewelry articles were recovered at the instance of Shabnam. later, she was arrested, said police.
During interrogation, Shabnam disclosed that she came to know that there was huge cash in the house of her niece. She further disclosed that when the couple visited her house in laxmi Nagar on May 7, she stole the house keys from the purse of Natasha, the complainant’s wife. Thereafter, she left the house on the pretext of getting her maid treated by a doctor and asked the couple to stay at her house till she returned.
She committed the theft in their house in Khirki Extension and went back to laxmi Nagar late at night and asked them to stay and leave in the morning.