Police Dress Up as Baraatis in A Wedding To Catch Thief
The police uses tactics to catch thieves! Ofcourse! So here you have, a scene directly out of the Hindi Television Serials!
In movies and crime serials you would have seen police disguised as a fruit seller or a mechanic repairing bikes on the road etc. This has now happened in real life. Let me tell you about it.
Sandeep Desai and his family lived in Mumbai’s Worli area. On 17th March 2023, Sandeep and his family had gone out of town. When they returned home the next day, they found their cupboards ransacked, and an amount of ?50 lakh missing. A case of theft was registered and after investigations, the police suspected the role of an insider as the accused had entered the house using duplicate keys.
The police arrested Pradeep Kanade, who was a driver employed by the family. Kanade was questioned and he said he had provided a set of duplicate keys to a man named Vinod Devkar. The police then searched for Devkar, who was seen in the CCTV footage, but could not trace him. The police then arrested 4 of his relatives. However a big chunk of the stolen money was with Devkar, who had several cases registered against him.
The police team was on a lookout for him and then later found that Devkar had started a car showroom in Rajasthan and had cheated people there as well by accepting money and not delivering cars. However, they were not able to nab him. The team learnt that on 15th May 2023 there was a wedding in the Devkar family. It was the wedding of the accused’s niece, and he was likely to attend it.
The police then started working on the information and tracked phones of his relatives and found that all of them were proceeding towards Saikheda village of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra. The Mumbai police then asked the police in the village if there was a wedding in the village on 15th May 2023. The police of the village confirmed it. The police team then decided to nab Devkar from the village.
Accordingly, the police teams reached the village, and dressed up as ‘baraatis’, even wearing wedding pagris (turbans) and mingled with the crowd. Once they identified Devkar in the crowd, they took him away from the other ‘baraatis’ and arrested him. Devkar was produced before the court and remanded to police custody till 22nd May 2023. What a dramatic way to arrest a thief who was on the run for the last 15 months!
