Hindustan Times ST (Mumbai)

Jewellery worth ₹80L stolen from Kiran Rao’s Bandra home

- Jayprakash S Naidu

RAO’S FATHER FILED A COMPLAINT THAT A RING AND A DIAMOND NECKLACE WORTH ₹80L WAS MISSING FROM THEIR APARTMENT

Jewellery worth Rs 80 lakh was stolen from producersc­reen writer- director Kiran Rao’s residence in Bandra, according to a police complaint. Rao is married to actor Aamir Khan.

Rao’s father filed a complaint on November 24 of a ring and a diamond necklace worth Rs 80 lakh missing from a cupboard in their apartment on Carter Road, Khar police said.

Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered under Section 380 (theft in dwelling house) police inspector Ramchandra Jadhav of Khar police station confirmed that a case has been registered and a probe was on employs three helps, all of whom were being questioned. No arrests have been made so far. The police visited the spot, according to sources, and found no one working for the Rao family missing since the incident.

The police source added that the last time Rao saw the jewel

:The Bombay high court on Tuesday let off an Andheri resident, who had been booked after a live cartridge was found in her bag at the airport in 2011.

It said that mere possession of any arms cannot constitute an offence under the Arms Act.

A bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice Nutan Sardessai said that while the Arms Act prohibits the possession or control of any arms without licence, such a concept of possession must connote “an element of consciousn­ess” in offence and a person who is no aware of the possession of a weapon without licence canno be said to commit an offence under the Act.

The bench was hearing a plea filed by a woman who had been held at the Sahar Internatio­na Airport in 2011 after security offi cers detected a live cartridge in her travel bag.

An FIR was registered agains her under the Arms Act.

The petitioner said that her husband had participat­ed in a recreation­al shooting sport even in 2009 in the US and that the car tridge must have been “mistak

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