PUNE: The crime branch of the Pune rural police arrested a couple on Tuesday for stealing brides’ jewelleries from various wedding halls sporting expensive clothes and driving into the venues in mid-size luxury car.
Seventeen such thefts cases were solved with the arrest of the couple — Vilas Mohan Dagade (26) and his wife, Jayashree (25), residents of Chandannagar. Stolen ornaments, car and cash, totally worth Rs37.27 lakh were recovered from them.
A team headed by inspector Padmakar Ghanwat, and comprising assistant inspector Ganesh Kshirsagar, and sub-inspector Ramesh Ghodge and Jeevan Rajguru, arrested them after studying CCTV footage of various wedding halls. A tip-off earlier this week helped them zero in on Vilas ad Jayashree.
Superintendent of police, Pune rural, Sandip Patil said the Dagade couple were labourers and hailed from Karmala in Solapur. “Both school dropouts, they used to wear good clothes and behave like as if they were the family members of bridegroom or bride at the marriage halls they struck at,” he said.
The couple stole valuables from December 2018. In the past six months, they had stolen valuables of brides from different wedding halls at Saswad, Walchandnagar, Bhandgaon, Talegaon Dhamdhere, Uruli Devachi, Rahu, Kedgaon, Malegaon, Otur, Wagholi, Rajgad, Shirur and other places, he said.
They used to study the flex boards in front of wedding halls or pick up invitation cards before entering the venues any doubts of relatives of the brides or bridegrooms.
Patil said, “Any bride’s room remain crowded because various activities go on. The man lingered in the wedding hall and his wife entered the bride’s chamber. She used to pick up the unattended bag of jewelleries in the melee and rush out. As she used to wear dazzling gold ornaments, nobody suspected her. In some cases, she offered Rs100 or Rs500 or a good sari to the bride as a gift before fleeing with the bag containing jewellery or cash,” he said.
Inspector Ghanwat said the couple used to start early in the morning and select wedding halls at random. “As they used to travel in car, nobody questioned them at the venues,” he said, adding that the couple had bought the car using the stolen cash.
Ghanwat said the couple wanted to buy a flat in the city. “They started stealing jewellery and cash from wedding halls as they did not have money to buy a home in the city,” he said.
The couple is suspected to have committed such offences in Pune city also.
Seventeen such thefts cases were solved with the arrest of the couple — Vilas Mohan Dagade (26) and his wife, Jayashree (25), residents of Chandannagar. Stolen ornaments, car and cash, totally worth Rs37.27 lakh were recovered from them.
A team headed by inspector Padmakar Ghanwat, and comprising assistant inspector Ganesh Kshirsagar, and sub-inspector Ramesh Ghodge and Jeevan Rajguru, arrested them after studying CCTV footage of various wedding halls. A tip-off earlier this week helped them zero in on Vilas ad Jayashree.
Superintendent of police, Pune rural, Sandip Patil said the Dagade couple were labourers and hailed from Karmala in Solapur. “Both school dropouts, they used to wear good clothes and behave like as if they were the family members of bridegroom or bride at the marriage halls they struck at,” he said.
The couple stole valuables from December 2018. In the past six months, they had stolen valuables of brides from different wedding halls at Saswad, Walchandnagar, Bhandgaon, Talegaon Dhamdhere, Uruli Devachi, Rahu, Kedgaon, Malegaon, Otur, Wagholi, Rajgad, Shirur and other places, he said.
They used to study the flex boards in front of wedding halls or pick up invitation cards before entering the venues any doubts of relatives of the brides or bridegrooms.
Patil said, “Any bride’s room remain crowded because various activities go on. The man lingered in the wedding hall and his wife entered the bride’s chamber. She used to pick up the unattended bag of jewelleries in the melee and rush out. As she used to wear dazzling gold ornaments, nobody suspected her. In some cases, she offered Rs100 or Rs500 or a good sari to the bride as a gift before fleeing with the bag containing jewellery or cash,” he said.
Inspector Ghanwat said the couple used to start early in the morning and select wedding halls at random. “As they used to travel in car, nobody questioned them at the venues,” he said, adding that the couple had bought the car using the stolen cash.
Ghanwat said the couple wanted to buy a flat in the city. “They started stealing jewellery and cash from wedding halls as they did not have money to buy a home in the city,” he said.
The couple is suspected to have committed such offences in Pune city also.
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