AHMEDABAD: To burgle his former employer’s Bopal home, a 34-year-old man went on a diet to lose weight to slighter through a ventilation window, without being caught by the cameras at front and back doors.
But he was captured by the cops of the local crime branch of Ahmedabad rural police who found him with the help of CCTV footage of a hardware shop. He had bought a saw and a trowel at the shop to break the glass of the window.
“The accused, Motisingh Chauhan, worked at the house of Mohit Maradia in Basant Bahar Society in Bopal about two years ago,” said a police officer. “He had vital information such as the place where valuables were stored and the location of the CCTV cameras. He also knew that the high-tech digital door could not be broken.”
Chauhan, who was working as domestic help at another person’s house on Sindhu Bhavan Road, decided to shed weight to slip inside his target’s home through the kitchen window.
“He told us that he had food just once a day for about three months to reduce his weight from 75kg to 65kg,” said the officer. “His current employer told us that Chauhan used to skip dinner citing his diet.”
Chauhan entered Maradia’s house on November 5 and stole valuables worth Rs 37 lakh.
As he was not caught by the CCTV cameras, cops used human intelligence and found his footage from a hardware shop in Bopal.
Later, on the basis of Chauhan’s cellphone location, cops caught him from SP Ring Road when he was about to board a bus to his native place in Udaipur. He had the loot with him.
