Thane: Woman held in connection with theft cases

THANE: A 33-year-old woman was arrested in Thane district for her alleged involvement in three house-breaking thefts, a senior police official said on Friday.


Deputy commissioner of police (crime) Deepak Deoraj said the accused, identified as Shirin Noor Ali Shaikh, had broken into three houses in Ulhasnagar and Ambernath in the district and looted cash, gold and silver worth Rs 13 lakh.

He said that 38 'tola' (a tola is around 10 grams) of gold and over 58 grams of silver had been recovered from her.

"She moved around in a burkha and surveyed locked houses. She then carried out house-breaking thefts mostly between 12 noon and 3pm," the official said.

She was nabbed by Unit IV of the

Thane Crime Branch

from the Wimco Naka area in Ambernath, he informed.