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Domestic help steals jewellery worth lakhs from Delhi home to buy DSLR to make YouTube videos
New Delhi: A house-help stole gold and silver jewellery worth lakhs from a house in Delhi’s Dwarka to buy a DSLR camera for film videos for her YouTube channel, media reported.
The 30-year-old domestic help, Neetu Yadav, was staying at Rajapuri in Delhi. She stole a gold bracelet, a silver chain and silver jewellery to buy a Nikon DSLR camera to shoot videos for her YouTube channel, NDTV reported, citing police sources.
The Anti Burglary Cell of Dwarka District of Delhi Police arrested the woman from Rajapuri Chowk and recovered the stolen jewellery. At the time of arrest, she was packing her bags to flee Delhi.
The woman worked at a bungalow in Dwarka's posh area, from where she stole the jewellery. The owner of the bungalow filed a police complaint saying his house was robbed on July 15, according to media reports.
The complainant told the police that he suspected that the domestic help, who worked a few days ago, could have committed the crime.
Police found that Neetu had given a fake address to her employer. When police called her, her phone was switched off.
After reviewing CCTV footage and talking to locals, authorities located Neetu. She was arrested while attempting to flee Delhi with a bag.
During interrogation, she told the police that she was a resident of Bherod, Rajasthan and escaped to Delhi from the abuse of her drug addict husband.
She started working as domestic help to survive. Later, she opened her YouTube channel and began posting Instagram reels. When someone advised her to buy a DSLR camera to make quality videos, she learned that the camera cost lakhs.
She tried to get a loan from relatives but her request was turned down.
While working at the Dwarka bungalow, she found that there were jewelleries worth lakhs of rupees in the house and planned to steal them to buy the camera.
Police said she will be tried for theft charges and prior to this she he had no criminal record.
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