The Delhi Police, on Friday, arrested three persons who would steal jewellery by diverting the attention of the shopkeeper. It was later found that the three were siblings and had started stealing ornaments to get extra money to support themselves. A jeweller who used to buy stolen jewellery from them was also arrested.
Modus operandi
According to the police, the modus operandi of the siblings — 32-year-old Chunni Lal and his two sisters — involved Lal and one of his sisters entering the shop and asking the shopkeeper to show them jewellery. Eventually, the other sister would enter and try to divert the attention of the jeweller. The police said she would steal an ornament at the first chance she got and hand it over to her sister, who had come with Lal. Later, they would sell the jewellery to Prem Kumar who has a shop in east Delhi’s Nand Nagri.
The accused were caught with the help of CCTV footage received by the police from complainant Bundu Ali’s shop. Ali had registered a complaint on January 31 stating that a male and two females had stolen 60 nose pins from his shop in Madipur.
