Tamil Nadu / Chennai: Sarees worth 7 lakhs stolen, gang of women captured in CCTV, know how they committed the crime?
On the occasion of Diwali or other festivals, people make huge purchases. Shopkeepers also face many incidents of theft during the festive season as thieves are on the lookout for such opportunities. A similar case has come to light from Chennai. Here a gang of women stole sarees worth seven lakh rupees from shops. However, when the police came to know about this, they handed over all the sarees to the police so that no case could be filed against them. At present the police is planning to investigate the women’s gang. Let us tell you that the price of the sarees which the woman had stolen was between Rs 30 thousand to Rs 70 thousand.
Sarees sent back due to fear of action
In fact, when a big bundle of expensive sarees arrived at Shastri Nagar police station in Chennai on Wednesday, the policemen thought that someone had sent them a gift for Diwali. But soon after, a call came from Vijayawada Police of Andhra Pradesh that these were the sarees stolen from a shop in Besant Nagar on October 28. Chennai Police is planning to search for half a dozen women captured in the shop’s CCTV cameras.
CCTV footage revealed that half a dozen women were seen roaming around the shop, some of them engaging the shopkeeper in other work and creating ‘shields’ for the remaining two women so that they could wear silk sarees under their sarees. Can keep the bundle. According to the information, the price of the sarees has been estimated at around seven lakhs. A police officer said the gang consisted of six or seven women, all of whom were wearing sarees.
Police searching for women’s gang
The officer further said that the sarees they stole were worth above Rs 30,000, some were worth Rs 70,000. Chennai Police suspected that the gang was from Vijayawada and after which they contacted the police there. Vijayawada Police traced the suspects who sent the sarees back to the police station to escape from the police. Police said that they would not be able to escape as Chennai Police was planning to go to Vijayawada after Diwali and arrest the gang. At the same time, a police officer said that Vijayawada Police has confirmed that these women often go to other cities to commit gang crimes during festivals.
