Palghar: A woman cooked up the robbery story after she spent all the money fearing her husband’s scolding in Maharashtra’s Palghar district
On May 9, the 38-year-old woman residing in the Vasai area complained to Manickpur police that some unidentified persons broke into her house and decamped with gold jewelry and cash worth Rs 10.3 lakh, senior police inspector Sahuraj Ranavare told a news agency.
A police probe team examined the CCTV footage and based on intelligence and technical inputs, they nabbed two persons, including a neighbor of the woman, in connection with the alleged incident, he said.
The official said during interrogation, the accused told the police that the woman had spent all the money sent by her husband, who was abroad.
The woman’s husband was supposed to return soon and since she could not give an account of the money spent by her, she cooked up the robbery drama with the help of the neighbor (arrested in the case), the police said.
The police also got to know that the woman had kept the “stolen” valuables at her brother’s house in Virar. A police team went there and seized the valuables and cash worth Rs 10.30 lakh, the official said.
