Hyderabad: The false complaints of gold theft have become a headache for the police who have trouble catching the perpetrators and then wasting more time trying to recover what has never been stolen.
The net effect, the police said, is that the level of recovery they are exposed to non-existent stolen goods.
Police officers said that a investigator could count himself lucky if the complainant received did not give an accurate statement.
In such cases, the police can make them give a statement that items found at home, provide the same in court and close this case.
If it doesn’t happen, the police have one case that doesn’t exist.
Even when there was clear evidence of false complaints, the police said they had a difficult task of proving it and at the same time was considered to be on the thief if they capture the complainant.
A senior police officer from Rachakonda said that people still believe that if they exaggerate the amount of gold stolen, they will approach what is missing when the police recover it.
This did not happen again due to the targeted recovery of the defendant and, therefore, there was no distribution of gold restored among a group of complainants, he said.
“Also, someone lied in the hope that a little gold could come when the police recovered it from the stolen gold receiver,” he said.
Telling theft in Vanasthalipuram in October last year, a investigator said: “A woman said that two gold bracelets weighed three tolar, gold chain with half tola, pearl chain with gold gold and rs 3,000 cash stolen from her home when the family left.
Thanks to CCTV and other instructions, the defendant was arrested recently and he claimed to steal cash but not gold.
“Cop said that when the family was faced by their researchers to dodge.
In other cases in Balatur on July 2021, a businessman claimed to lose a gold necklace, cellphone and silver bracelet.
Accused of being accused of claiming to steal silver bracelets, but was rejected to take gold.
Similarly, in March 202, a teacher from Balatur claimed the loss of a gold necklace, a pair of earrings, mobile, power bank, perfume bottle, Rs 50,000 cash.
The defendant coughed most of the goods, but said no gold and cash stolen was not near Rs 50,000.
In all three cases police said that it became clear that the complainant had lied.
The police now hope to get a statement that the ‘stolen’ gold was found at home, submitting the same before the court and closed this case.
While in another case in October 2021, the secret of a woman sent a police with a gold recovery hunt.
The 30-year-old woman, a grocery store from Meerpet, has claimed that a thief seized Mangalsutra Gold 2.5 Tolias when she was in the store.
But when the thief was arrested, the story changed.
It was imitation gold and thieves even showed the place he had thrown away.
“We caught the item and when the woman was questioned, he begged us not to tell her husband because he told him that it was genuine gold,” said an investigation.