Woman stages theft at her house, 4 held
The district police on Tuesday night arrested four persons, including a woman, for allegedly faking a theft at her own house at Vijay Nagar. The woman had claimed that two unidentified persons barged into her house on night of February 21 and fled with cash and jewellery worth ₹10 lakh, police said.
The suspects were identified as Puja Kumar, 24, her mother Rajkumari Singh, 48, driver Vinod Kumar, 45, and jeweller Gajendra Soni, 55. The woman is married for two years with the Vijay Nagar resident while the three others are residents of Hathras district, police said.
According to police, while her husband and in-laws were not at home on the night of the incident, suspect Puja claimed that the two unidentified persons gave her sedatives and fled with the valuables.
“An investigation was launched into the incident and we found several events suspicious. Till the time of the incident, the woman was speaking to someone over phone which was not possible if she had been given sedatives. Further, she spoke several times to the driver
whose location was found in Ghaziabad later. In fact, her mother had left behind her phone at her house in Hathras and came to Ghaziabad with the driver and was using his phone during the incident,” said Abhay Kumar Mishra, circle officer (city 1).
Police said that once the driver was questioned, he revealed the plot and said that he and Rajkumari had come to Puja’s house and took away valuables as part of the plan. Also, one of the neighbours of Puja had visited her house at the time of the incident and did not find her in a state of drowsiness,
police said.
“During questioning, it was revealed that Rajkumari recently developed got into betting and wanted more money. So, she contacted Puja and it was planned that they would make it look like an incident of theft and take away the valuables. But their plan was foiled,” CO added.
Police said the jeweller was arrested as Rajkumari had sold him some of the stolen jewellery in order to get money. They said that most of the gold and silver jewellery and ₹1.10 lakh cash were recovered from the possession of the suspects.
A 17-year-old girl, who was allegedly gangraped two days ago in a village here, died on Wednesday while she was being taken to a hospital, police said.
The teenager was undergoing treatment in the village in Maudaha area but her condition started deteriorating on Tuesday, Superintendent of Police Narendra Kumar Singh said.
She was being taken to a community health centre from the village when she died, he added.
Meanwhile, Circle Officer, Maudaha, Saumya Pandey said the victim’s family did not report the incident and that the police came to know about it only after the teenager’s death.
“We are waiting for the postmortem report, and the matter is being probed,” she added.
Speaking to reporters, the victim’s father alleged that his daughter was raped by five men on Monday night. He said he did not inform the police as he was afraid.
11-yr-old girl raped in UP
An 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle in a village here, following which the accused was arrested, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Monday night when Shubham reached the girl’s house and later took her to a secluded place and raped her, SHO Jaishyam Shukla said.
When the minor’s parents woke up on Tuesday morning, they searched for the girl, who was found in Shubham’s house, he said. An FIR into the matter was registered and the accused was arrested, police added.