MUMBAI: Making friends with a teenager on social media a chartered accountant’s family very dearly.
The Colaba police arrested a 19-year old after he entered his girlfriend’s flat in the family’s absence and stole her family’s gold ornaments worth Rs 14 lakh with a duplicate key his girlfriend had forgotten with him days earlier.
The police arrested Shaizaan Agwan, a resident of Mazgaon, on the charges of theft and house break-in.
On Friday, the chartered accountant’s family (name withheld) lodged a complaint at Colaba police station, alleging that when the family returned from a tour on January 27, they found the ornaments, cash and other valuables including an i-Phone missing from their safe. The family lives in Pasta Lane in Colaba. They were shocked as there was no sign of forced entry into the flat, but found the gold and cash missing.
The police registered a break-in case and started a probe. After two days of inquiry from watchmen, neighbours and domestic help, the police suspected that it to be an inside job and asked the family to find out if they had lost their house key.
“The family then raised suspicion on their teenage daughter. The girl told us that she did not tell anything as she got scared that her father would scold her. They counselled and took her into confidence. It was here that she told them that she had forgotten her house keys with Agwan whom she had met on Instagram,” said an officer.
The police picked up Shaizaan who confessed to having stolen the vaulables using the duplicate keys. The police have recovered Rs 1 lakh and the i-Phone from him.