By A 33-year-old employee of a jewelry showroom in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh stabbed himself with a nail on a flyover late last month to pass off the injury as an heist attempt and siphon 985 grams of gold jewellery, police said on Sunday.
The gold jewellery with a market worth of nearly Rs 50 lakh has been recovered from Umesh Bhosle, who was working as a salesman for a jewelry showroom in Karol Bagh since 2019, said Sanjay Bhatia, deputy commissioner of police (central district).
“On September 30, he made a police call to allege that he was carrying the gold during a bag and travelling on Zakhira Flyover when two motorcycle-borne men attacked him with a knife and fled together with his gold,” said the DCP.
Bhosle was hospitalised and treated for the non-fatal injuries whilst the police registered a robbery case and commenced probing the case.
When the police obtained no leads from CCTV footage and their sources on the bottom , they began chatting with Bhosle for clues about the alleged crime. “But we found his statements to be contradictory. once we questioned him further, he broke down and confessed to attacking himself with a nail and spending it off as a knife attack during a robbery,” said the DCP.
“Bhosle told us that he was getting married later this year and needed the cash to fund his wedding. So, he decided to siphon the jewellery by passing it off as a robbery,” said the DCP.
Bhosle was arrested on Saturday.
