Woman plots theft at her father’s house

Rajkot: A woman was booked on Monday for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to commit theft at her father’s house in Railnagar locality of Rajkot. She had sent her boyfriend to commit the crime. Her boyfriend was arrested on Monday.

Police said the accused, Riyansi Christian (22), had sent her boyfriend Parth Bhatt (28) to commit theft at the house of her father Francis Christain. Bhatt had stolen two gold biscuits, one gold chain, Rs 1.60 lakh cash, all worth Rs 7.34 lakh, from Francis’ house on November 25.

The theft was committed while Francis was away to Delhi along with his family members between November 24 and November 29. The theft was detected upon return of Francis on November 29.

“From the very beginning of the investigation, we suspected it to have been the handiwork of an insider as the lock of the house had not been broken, but a duplicate key was used to open the main door,” said V K Gadhvi, inspector with Rajkot detection of crime branch.

During the investigation, the police found out that Francis’s daughter Riyansi had a live-in relationship with Bhatt.

“Both Riyansi and Bhatt were on the radar of our suspicion. When we went to her house and interrogated Bhatt, he broke down and confessed to the crime. Bhatt told the police that Riyansi had once brought the key to Francis’s house, of which he made the duplicate key,” said L L Chavda, inspector with Pradyumannagar police station.

Riyansi asked Bhatt to commit theft at Francis’s house while the latter was going to Delhi. Bhatt told the cops that as Riyansi wanted to set up her office for a placement agency, she had plotted the theft.

The police recovered the two stolen gold biscuits, the gold chain and Rs 55,000 cash from the boot of Bhatt’s two-wheeler on Monday.