Bizman house robbery: Couple from Nepal held

Hyderabad: The Kukatpally police arrested a couple and their friend, all natives of Nepal, for stealing cash and valuables worth about Rs 1 crore from the house of a businessman in Kukatpally earlier this month.

The gang spent about Rs 1.10 lakh in less than a week on expensive phones, watches etc during their stay in Bengaluru post the burglary, said the police, adding that they had planned to shift to Mumbai.

The accused were identified as Chakra Dharji alias Chakradhar alias Chakri, 32, his wife Sita Dargi, 25, and their friend, Upendra Pradeep Shahi, 38, said the police, adding that the recovered Rs 28.90 lakh cash along with gold and diamond ornaments weighing about 137 tulas, worth Rs 71.10 lakh, from them.

House owner Vadepally Damodar Rao of Vivenakanagar colony in Kukatpally had employed Chakri, from Nepal about seven months ago to work as a domestic help. “The worker, along with his wife, stayed in the servant quarters of the house. On July 12, around 8 pm, Damodar and his family went to attend a function and returned around 11 pm to find the domestic help missing and their house ransacked,” said the police. About four days prior to the offence, Upendra, also a native of Nepal, had joined the couple by taking a flight from Lucknow and introduced himself as a relative of the domestic help. Police said that the trio could be seen moving inside their house in the CCTV footage.

“While leaving the house with the stolen loot, they took away the WiFi router, mistaking it to be the DVR. We have checked the footage from the DVR and also confirmed via other CC cameras that they engaged an autorickshaw to Moosapet,” police said.