The Shivaji Nagar police arrested a 36-year-old woman on February 4 for allegedly stealing jewellery worth Rs 1 lakh from a shop at Govandi with an unidentified person. Her husband, however, claims that she is a victim, as the man offered her a job as a housemaid, and on the pretext of taking her to a job placement agency at Panvel, took her to the Govandi shop.

According to the police, the woman, Pinky Singh, and her husband Dilip, told them he had met the accused a couple of years back in the Gauhati Express. Dilip said the accused introduced himself as a jeweller, and took his mobile number. After that he would often call him. “I have forgotten his name. On February 3 he told me that he had come to Mumbai but his workers locked his flat at Santacruz and asked if he could come over to my house. I let him,” said Dilip.