India: A woman stages robbery at her own house with an associate, both arrested in Delhi

Dubai: A 28-year-old woman allegedly staged a robbery at her home in the Indian state of Delhi on Tuesday. The woman, with her associate, planned the robbery and was arrested later. The story amused social media users, as many of them commented on it as being like a movie.

Replying to the story, which is doing rounds on the online platforms, a Facebook user Firoz Shah posted: "Interesting! She must have got inspired by the movies."

Reportedly, the accused robbed Rs2,18,000 (Dh10,956) and gold jewellery from the house.

The woman additionally allegedly injured and tied herself to mislead her 65-year-old husband and the investigators, the police mentioned.

According to the media reports, the police have recovered the stolen money and jewellery from the home of the woman's associate, who was later identified as Jitender.

The accused woman's mum used to work as a maid at the home of a person named Ramesh Kumar. Recently, she got married to him, and was staying at his house.

Police officials say that she was the third spouse of Kumar, who had a five-year-old son from his earlier marriage.

Kumar had a fan manufacturing unit in Delhi; however, as a consequence of losses in his business due to COVID-19 pandemic, he needed to shut down his manufacturing facility.

Apparently, he was earning money by renting out several of his properties.

The incident occurred on August 30 in Shastri Nagar in north Delhi's Sarai Rohilla area. The police had been advised by the woman that some unidentified people had entered her home forcefully, and after injuring her with a hammer, they robbed all the money and jewellery and tied her arms and legs and fled.

Subsequently, her husband summoned the police after seeing his spouse tied up and injured.

Talking to the media, Anto Alphonse, deputy commissioner of police (north) said: "The accused … was then taken to Acharya Bhikshu hospital in Delhi by the police, she was treated. An investigation was initiated after a case was registered on the assertion of her husband.

"The investigating team was referred to the spot. All the family members were questioned, and CCTV camera footage of the rooms scanned. After she returned from the hospital, the accused was questioned … throughout which police observed contradictions in her statements. So the whole sequence of the crime was recreated."

Finally, the woman confessed to staging the theft with the help of her associate named Jitender. The police raided Jitender’s home and recovered the stolen objects. Both Jitender and the accused woman hatched a conspiracy to stage the robbery. In order to mislead her husband and the police, she injured herself on the forehead and tied her hands and legs while her associate took away the cash and jewellery and hid it at his house," the police official added.