Beard, husky voice: How a woman posed as man to steal cash, jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore from relative’s house
Vasai Virar police arrest, Mira Bhayandar crime: The Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) police arrested the woman from Gujarat after she had fled from Maharashtra.
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The crime branch team began reviewing the CCTV footage and identified a person with the stolen goods at Vasai railway station. (Express File Photo)Mira Bhayandar crime: The Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) police in Maharashtra Tuesday arrested a 27-year-old woman who allegedly donned a fake beard and a mask to look like a man and stole cash and valuables worth Rs 1.5 crore from a relative’s house.
Based on CCTV footage, the MBVV crime branch arrested Jyoti Bhanushali, a Gujarat resident. An officer said Jyoti, dressed as a man with a beard, went to the residence of her relatives in Vasari-Virar Monday, knowing that only her cousin’s father-in-law, Uddhav Bhanushali, would be at the house. When she rang the bell, Uddhav opened the door, said the police.
The woman, who had trained to speak in a huskier voice, spoke in Kutchi, a Gujarati dialect, and said she needed to use the washroom urgently, as per the police. Uddhav allowed her in and after going to the washroom, she allegedly told him that there was some leakage in the bathroom.
When Uddhav went inside, she allegedly locked the door from the outside and fled with cash and jewellery worth approximately Rs 1.5 crore. It was only when his family members came home and unlocked Uddhav that the crime came to light. The family then approached the local police station, and the police filed an FIR.
The crime branch team began reviewing the CCTV footage and identified a person with the stolen goods at Vasai railway station. While Uddhav identified the person whom he thought was a man, on closer scrutiny of the footage, his sister-in-law identified the person as Jyoti.
The police team then began chasing her and found that she had taken a train to her hometown in Gujarat. Eventually, the crime branch team managed to nab her from Gujarat, where she was placed under arrest and brought to the city.
An officer said that during questioning, she told them that her family had recently suffered losses. She said she had seen her cousin wearing jewellery at a family function and decided to hatch the plan to rob her.
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