New Delhi: When she returned home on Thursday night in south Delhi's Sarojini Nagar, a central government employee noticed the lock was broken. The shocker however was when she came to the gate, a person came out of the door and asked her to leave as the owner was outside.
Shocked, the woman alerted her neighbour and later he was arrested.
According to police, the accused was identified as Rahul Yadav, who is suspectedly a vagabond. From his pocket, a watch was recovered which he had stolen from the house.
The woman lives with her husband and son, and would to go to work every day at 9.15-9.30 am and returned around 6.30 pm.
Last Thursday, the victim noticed the lock broken and from her house a person whom she had never seen came out telling her that "Madam is not here, please come after one hour".
One of the investigators told Millennium Post that the accused was unaware that the woman was the owner of the house.
"Without wasting any time, I alerted neighbours and the door was closed from outside. A PCR call was made and the accused was nabbed," said the woman in her complaint, adding that she found the household items scattered all over.
Police further claimed that the accused in the police station threatened the woman that when he comes out of the jail, he will commit a theft at her house and after which he will burn the house. The police have registered a case under appropriate sections of Indian Penal Code.