Bengaluru: A house burglary investigation has ended with the complainant himself landing in legal trouble. A claim that burglars had escaped with gold jewellery and cash unravel;ed and led to the recovery of a Blinkit delivery bag containing ganja, bong chocolates, and an electronic weighing scale during police probe. Investigators later concluded that the alleged theft of gold and cash had been fabricated, prompting the registration of a fresh case against the complainant.According to the complaint filed by sub-inspector Santosh Kumar of Bandepalya police station, Rajkumar Yadav, 26, lodged a burglary complaint at his house on 3rd Cross, Mangammanapalya, on July 6. Yadav had claimed that burglars had broken into his house and stolen a 15g gold chain, a 5g gold ring, and Rs 21,000 in cash.During the course of investigation, police detained his friends Mohammad Iliaz, Thouheed, and Shivanshu on July 8. However, during sustained interrogation, the accused allegedly said they broke into Yadav’s house but did not steal anything. Instead, acting on information provided by them, police recovered a grocery delivery bag from them that contained two packets of Bong chocolates made of ganja, 20 grams of ganja, and an electronic weighing scale.Further investigation revealed that Yadav’s claim regarding the theft of gold jewellery and cash was false. The complaint was deliberately fabricated by Yadav, who thought officers would recover the property from the accused and hand it over to him, enabling him to falsely gain valuables.With the permission of the jurisdictional court, police have now registered a fresh case against him under Section 217 of BNS (false information, with intent to cause a public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person). A senior police officer said the three suspects in the burglary case have been booked under the NDPS Act for possessing ganja and bong chocolates.Investigators said while Yadav’s neighbour Naveen had called him at around 3pm while he was at his paan shop to inform him that the front door of his house was ajar. Despite being alerted, Yadav returned home only around 8pm and later, claimed the gold and cash had been stolen. Yadav was allegedly unaware that his own friends were behind the break-in.
