Techie, wife nabbed for stealing jewellery in Pune

Stealing gold jewellery “just for fun” has landed an engineer working in a reputed Hinjewadi-based info-tech company and his wife in police custody. Video footage from closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras did them in.

The police closed in on Akshay Gupta, 37, and his wife Geetika at their residence in Pashan on Sunday. Akshay draws an annual salary of Rs18 lakh per annum, while Geetika is a post-graduate in business administration. The couple, which hails from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, has an 8-year-old son.

The police recovered gold ornaments valued at Rs3.2 lakh, which the couple had stolen from the MG Road (Camp) showrooms of PN Gadgil and Tanishq on July 23. Among the ornaments recovered were necklaces, ear rings and bracelets. However, their luck ran out when staff at both the showrooms detected the crime with the help of CCTV footage and reported the matter to the police.

On interrogation, Akshay told the police they committed the rime “just for fun”.

The assistant commissioner of police (crime), Prabhakar Patil, said the task of locating the the couple was not an easy one. “We had a hunch that Akshay could be from an IT background. We activated our informers in Vimannagar, Pashan and Baner areas and showed them the snaps of the couple captured on CCTV.”
Informers in Pashan reverted back to the police, confirming that the couple had an apartment in Pashan. A police team, led by police inspector Suresh Kekane, laid a trap in Pashan, arrested the duo and recovered the stolen booty.