On November 5, five well-dressed women allegedly picked up an envelope containing Rs 21,000 from a restaurant in Khan Market, which belonged to a teacher of a leading private school. The teacher, Sona Sachdev, had left the envelope behind accidentally, which the group claimed was theirs. Sachdev also obtained CCTV footage from the restaurant, which shows the women claiming the envelope and even paying their bill from the money inside. After the teacher Sona Sachdev lodged a complaint, police registered a case under sections 379 (theft) and 34 of the IPC at Tughlak Road police station and are on the lookout for the women. [related-post] “We have circulated the grab amongst all shopkeepers and given their photos to all police personnel deployed in Khan Market,” said a senior police officer. Sachdev told The Indian Express that she had gone to the restaurant along with her friends on November 4. “A group of five women were sitting next to us. Half an hour after we left the restaurant, I realised that I had left the envelope containing Rs 21,000. I then called the manager and asked him to look for it,” she said. Before the complainant could reach the restaurant, the staff began looking for the envelope but could not find it. “We later reached the restaurant and asked the manger to check the CCTV footage. We found that one of the waiters spotted the envelope while cleaning the table after we left the restaurant. He asked the group if it was theirs and they took it from him. They even began celebrating. They left 10 minutes after paying their bill,” she claimed. Sachdev raised an alarm and informed police. They approached the Khan Market parking attendant in order to trace the women’s vehicle, but the CCTV cameras did not have a recording facility. “We later went to Tughlak Road police station, where officials immediately registered a case. It is shocking. I never expected women from good families to indulge in such behaviour in a prominent restaurant. We have uploaded the entire incident on social networking sites as we want to make others aware of these girls,” said Sachdev.
