A probe into a robbery at a house in north-east Delhi’s Welcome has unearthed a ‘plot’ that has left the victims horrified.
According to the police, the robbery was planned by the victims’ daughter, Shabana, who had secretly married a man and wanted to frame her fiancé, chosen by her family, for the crime.
Cash and jewellery amounting to ₹30 lakh were robbed from the house on Tuesday when all members of Shabana’s family were away, except for her younger sister.
Marriage in 2 months
The police said Shabana conspired with her “husband”, Md. Anish, to commit the crime as her family was preparing to marry her to a doctor two months later.
“She and her husband, Md. Anish, planned that they would carry out a robbery at her house and then plant the booty in the house of the doctor to prove to her family that the groom and his family were behind the crime. She even had plans to go ahead and marry the doctor, despite being married to Anish, so that she could frame the former in the case,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North East) A.K. Singla.
Shabana (22) secretly married Anish (34), a married man, in 2015. Anish’s family, including his first wife, also did not know about this marriage.
Wrong number
“Anish fell in love with Shabana when they got connected through a wrong number. They didn’t reveal their relationship to their family members. Their nikah was solemnised at Shahdara in 2015,” said a police officer.
As per their plan, Shabana called Anish and locked her sister in her room. She also provided keys of the locker to Anish to execute the plan.
To convince her sister that a robbery had taken place, she asked Anish to come at a time when only she and her sister were at home.
“On Tuesday, Shabana made a PCR call around 5.30 p.m. and claimed that two unknown persons had committed a robbery at her place. According to her statement, the duo knocked the door of her house and asked for her father. When she told them he was not at home, the two men said that they had come from Kabir Nagar and wanted to deliver the marriage invitation cards. She opened the door thinking they were genuine people,” said Mr. Singla.
‘Husband’ arrested
Shabana told the police that the men asked her for a pen and when she turned back, both of them barged into the house and one man covered her mouth. The other one bolted the room of the second floor where her younger sister was studying, she claimed.
This sequence of events raised the police’s suspicion and they quizzed Shabana strictly following which she allegedly broke down confessed to having committed the crime. The police also arrested Anish for his alleged involvement in the robbery and are trying to ascertain if someone else was also a party to the crime.
