A meal at his married daughter’s house proved rather costly for a Geeta Colony businessman after his son-in-law allegedly used the opportunity to burgle his house and took away jewellery worth lakhs, said the police.
Police complaint
Victim Harikishan approached the police on April 7 saying his house was burgled when he returned from his daughter’s residence.
Insider job suspected
Mr. Harikishan’s house has a computerised numeric lock, which was open, and the digital video recorder was missing. These clues led the police to suspect that the burglar was familiar with the place, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahadra) Nupur Prasad. “CCTV footage from surrounding areas was obtained and analysed. The analysis revealed suspicious activity by the complainant’s son-in-law, Love. He was interrogated and apprehended. All stolen articles were recovered from his possession,” she said.
On how the son-in-law managed to commit the burglary when Mr. Harikishan was at house, Ms. Prasad said he used ice cream as a pretext.
“He called his father-in-law with family at his Krishna Nagar residence for dinner. At 10.15 p.m., he left the house on pretext of buying ice-cream and burgled his father-in-law’s house instead,” said Ms. Prasad.
Sustained interrogation revealed that the accused wanted to make a lot of money in a short span of time and thus planned the burglary.
Wedding gift
Married to Mr. Harikishan’s daughter four years ago, Mr. Love learnt that his brother-in-law had received a substantial amount of gold during his recent wedding. It was then that the accused decided to burgle his father-in-law’s house.