Woman held for staging ‘ robbery’ at her own house

Eyeing her aged husband’s wealth, a 28- yearold woman staged a “robbery” at her north Delhi apartment with the help of her associate following which both of them were arrested, police said on Tuesday.

The accused duo robbed ` 2.18 lakh and gold jewellery from the flat. The woman also inflicted an injury on herself and tied herself up to mislead both her husband and the investigators, police said.

The police claimed to have recovered the stolen cash and jewellery from the house of the woman’s associate, identified as Jitender ( 30). The accused woman was a widow and her mother worked as a maid at the house of the man named Ramesh Kumar, aged 65 years.

Just a month ago, she got married to Kumar. She was his third wife of Kumar, who had a fiveyearold son from his previous marriage, police said. Kumar had a fan manufacturing unit here in Delhi but due to losses in business, he had to shut down his factory. However, he was making good money by renting out several of his properties, police said.

The incident took place on August 30 in Shastri Nagar in north Delhi’s Sarai Rohilla, police said.

After reaching the flat, the police were told by the woman that some unidentified men had entered her house “forcefully” and after injuring her with a hammer, they robbed all the cash and jewellery and tied her hands and legs before fleeing. It was her husband who called the police after seeing his wife tied up and injured. The accused woman was then taken to Acharya Bhikshu hospital by the police where she received treatment. An investigation was initiated immediately soon after a case was registered on the statement of her husband, said Anto Alphonse, deputy commissioner of police ( north).