Uninvited guest: Lecturer quits job, turns full-time thief; how she robbed wedding guests

BENGALURU: Basavanagudi constabulary person arrested a 46-year-old pistillate for allegedly stealing golden ornaments, currency and different valuables from wedding functions by posing arsenic a comparative of the bride oregon groom.

The accused, Revathi, has been remanded successful constabulary custody for 12 days.Revathi, a erstwhile impermanent lecturer and a nonmigratory of Udayanagar successful K R Puram was recovered to beryllium progressive successful aggregate thefts astatine normal halls.Following her arrest, constabulary recovered 262 grams of golden ornaments worthy astir Rs 32 lakh. Revathi had discontinue her teaching occupation a fewer years agone earlier allegedly turning to theft.

The lawsuit came to airy aft a ailment from a Manjunatha Nagar resident, who, on with her mother, attended a relative’s wedding astatine a matrimony hallway successful Basavanagudi connected Nov 23.

They had kept a container containing a 32-gram golden concatenation and an artificial collar concatenation successful 1 of the rooms. Later, they discovered that the chain, valued astir Rs 3 lakh, and the portion of artificial jewellery, were missing.Revathi was arrested from her residence connected Dec 1. During interrogation, she confessed to the theft and admitted to committing akin offences astatine 2 different matrimony halls successful Basavanagudi and successful different districts.

During interrogation, she revealed stashing distant immoderate of her ill-gotten gains astatine location portion the remainder were pledged to a slope successful Kadubeesanahalli for a loan.According to police, Revathi targeted wedding functions, intimately observing women attendees wearing golden ornaments portion they were engaged successful rituals. She would past gaffe into the rooms to bargain valuables earlier softly slipping retired of the venue.She told the investigators that fiscal pressure, including her husband’s cardiac ailment, on with expenses of her son’s acquisition and different household needs drove her to the thefts.