Through PTI
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police Crime Department has arrested a goldsmith who bought the stolen jewelry belonging to actor Sonam Kapoor’s better half’s mother, a senior officer mentioned on Thursday.
The jewelry was once stolen from Kapoor’s Amrita Shergill Highway place of dwelling by way of a nurse and her husband hired by way of her. The jeweller was once known as Dev Verma, 40, a resident of Kalkaji, police mentioned.
They mentioned they’ve recovered from Verma stolen jewelry value greater than Rs 1 crore that incorporated 100 diamonds, six gold chains, diamond bangles, a diamond bracelet, two tops, and one brass coin.
An i10 automobile that was once bought from the stolen quantity by way of the accused couple has additionally been recovered, they mentioned. Different recoveries are nonetheless in procedure.
The couple spent the stolen cash basically to repay money owed, scientific bills in their folks, and space renovation. Verma is the 3rd one to be arrested in reference to the robbery.
Police on Wednesday had arrested Aparna Ruth Wilson, an worker at Kapoor’s place of dwelling, together with her husband Naresh Kumar Sagar from their place of dwelling in Sarita Vihar. They’re accused of stealing money and jewelry value Rs 2.4 crore in February from the actor’s space the place she lives together with her husband and in-laws.
The nurse, employed to appear after the 86-year-old better half’s mother of the actor, conspired together with her accountant husband to scouse borrow the jewelry and money from the home, police mentioned.
Verma confessed to have purchased the stolen jewelry from Sagar and paid him the sum in money and digital transaction, they mentioned.
Wilson and Sagar allegedly finished the robbery on February 11 and an FIR was once registered on February 23 at Tughlaq Highway Police Station, police mentioned.
The complainant within the case was once the chief of Kapoor and her husband Anand Ahuja’s space that employs over 40 other people, they mentioned.
Right through investigation, the police wondered greater than 32 workers and 6 nurses together with their kin and contacts.
The largest problem all the way through investigation was once the lack of understanding concerning the time lag between the robbery and when the house owners spotted the robbery, mentioned Rohit Meena, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime).
“In response to technical research, the staff zeroed in on two suspects and following a raid, each Naresh Kumar Sagar and his spouse Aparna Ruth Wilson have been apprehended from their space,” he mentioned.
Right through interrogation, Wilson instructed police that she was once employed by way of the family when Kapoor’s better half’s mother in 2020 was once admitted to a medical institution the place she labored as a nurse, and he or she were given to understand concerning the requirement of any other nurse at their space, the officer mentioned.
“In March 2021, the accused got to work as a nurse within the actor’s space. Whilst running she noticed that jewelry and money have been saved in an almirah. At some point the nurse took the better half’s mother to the almirah on her wheelchair and noticed within it jewelry value crores, and enormous amount of money. She instructed about this to her husband and so they conspired to scouse borrow all of it,” the officer mentioned.
Sagar requested her to scouse borrow the jewelry intermittently to stop the robbery from getting spotted. As deliberate, she would scouse borrow jewelry at evening after giving sedatives to the sufferer, the officer mentioned. They stole all the stuff over a span of 10-11 months, and bought the jewelry as and once they were given an opportunity.
The FIR was once registered below the Indian Penal Code segment 381 (robbery by way of clerk or servant of assets in ownership of grasp), police mentioned. The Tughlaq Highway Police Station had transferred the case to the Particular Workforce Department of the New Delhi district for investigation, they mentioned.
The Crime Department could also be probing the subject, police mentioned.