Ludhiana man befriends Chandigarh woman on FB, steals Rs 40L jewellery from her house, held

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 25

The UT police have arrested a 30-year-old Ludhiana resident for stealing jewellery worth around Rs 40 lakh from the house of a woman whom he had befriended on Facebook.

The complainant, a resident of Sector 46, became friends with the suspect, Vishal Kumar, on Facebook. On May 15, Vishal visited the complainant’s house for some work when she was alone.

Inspector Rajeev Kumar, SHO of the Sector 34 police station, said the suspect drugged the complainant by putting sedatives in her drink. The suspect then stole gold and silver jewellery from the house and escaped.

The police registered a case under Sections 380, 411 and 328 of the IPC at the Sector 34 police station on May 20.

The police traced the suspect through the social networking site. “The complainant just knew the suspect’s name; we traced people who were in his touch and through them, we got to know about his address in Ludhiana. A police team visited Ludhiana and found that he was in Delhi after which we nabbed him from Delhi on May 22,” the SHO said.

The police said the stolen jewellery items worth around Rs40 lakh had been recovered from the suspect.

Victim from sec 46

The complainant, a resident of Sector 46, became friends with the suspect, Vishal Kumar, on Facebook. On May 15, Vishal visited her house for some work when she was alone. Inspector Rajeev Kumar, SHO of the Sector 34 police station, said the suspect drugged the complainant by putting sedatives in her drink. The suspect then stole gold and silver jewellery from the house and escaped.