Women posing as sarpanch’s friends steal 40 suits from his shop in Gurugram

A gang of seven women, who pretended to be a sarpanch’s friends, stole around 40 suits worth Rs 1.25 lakh from his shop in Dhankot area on Monday evening, police said. The incident took place while the sarpanch and his wife were not at the shop, police said.

Five of the women went inside the shop as two gangs, pretending they did not know each other.

“One gang told the saleswoman that they were friends with the sarpanch and asked her to show the best clothes,” head constable, Yudhvir, the investigating officer in the case who goes only by his first name, said.

One of them passed on stacks of suits to a woman sitting on a couch, holding a child around two years old. The woman on the couch then hid the suits in a cloth, with which she was covering the child, and smuggled them into a van parked outside a shop in four trips, police said. Two women stood near the van and helped the others. The whole incident was caught in a CCTV camera installed inside the shop.

An FIR was registered on Wednesday under section 380 (theft in any building) of the Indian Penal Code.

“Though the suits were stolen on Monday, the staff at the store only got to know of it on Wednesday when they found some expensive pieces missing. On scanning the CCTV footage, they realised that the suits had been stolen,” Yudhvir, said.

Dinesh Sehrawat, the sarpanch, said that a tailor was also present inside the shop at the time of the incident and the women’s faces could be identified from the CCTV footage.

First Published: Aug 24, 2018 04:44 IST