The police arrested Professor Revathi on December 1 at her house, and took her into 12 days’ custody.(Express Photo)
A 46-year-old professor at a private college has been arrested for allegedly stealing gold ornaments, cash, and other valuables from wedding venues by posing as a relative of the bride or groom, the police said Wednesday.
The Bengaluru police announced the arrest of the woman, identified as Revathi, Tuesday. The police said they seized gold ornaments worth Rs 32 lakh from the resident of K R Puram, who worked as a Kannada professor at a private college in Bengaluru.
A police officer said the woman’s husband has cardiac issues, and her son’s education expenses were increasing, pushing her to steal gold ornaments from wedding halls.
According to officers, a person approached the Basavanagudi police station on November 25, stating that a 32-gram gold chain and an artificial collar chain had gone missing from their bag at a wedding hall in Basavanagudi. The complainant had gone to the venue on November 23 along with her mother to attend a relative’s wedding.
The police lodged a theft case at the Basavanagudi Police Station based on the complaint. They reviewed CCTV footage and other evidence and found that Revathi stole the jewellery.
The police arrested Revathi on December 1 at her house, and took her into 12 days’ custody.
Seemant Kumar Singh, Commissioner, Bengaluru city police, said, “Upon interrogation, the woman confessed to having committed the theft of gold jewellery in this case. She also revealed that she had committed thefts of gold jewellery in two other marriage halls within the limits of the Basavanagudi police station.”
During detailed interrogation while in custody, the accused told the police she had committed thefts in two other places in Bengaluru, as well as at wedding halls in other districts of Karnataka.
“She further stated she had kept the stolen gold jewellery at her house, and that she, along with her husband, had availed a gold loan by pledging the jewellery at a bank located in Kadubeesanahalli,” Singh said.
The police said they recovered 262 grams of gold jewellery worth Rs 32,00,000 from her residence and a bank in Kadubeesanahalli between December 2 and December 12.