Burqa clad women, caught on camera, stealing lehengas from garment store… WATCH

New Delhi: A group of burqa clad women are under the police scanner for stealing costly lehengas from a reputed shop of Muzaffarnagar. The incident happened at a ready-made garment shop located in Church market of the Civil lines area.

While the burqa-clad women secretly lifted the lehengas from shop, their act was caught on CCTV camera installed at the shop. The shop owner Sanjay Batla has lodged a police complaint and an enquiry is underway into the ‘lehenga lifting mafia’.

The women in veil entered the garment shop on account of purchasing clothes for the upcoming Eid festival. They asked the attendants of garment outlet to show them clothes. While the workers were busy in attending customers, these women grabbed a few lehengas and hid them under their burqas. The whole act of engaging the shop workers in conversation and in the meanwhile lifting lehengas was caught on the CCTV cameras. The burqa women group left the shop after clandestinely lifting the lehengas.

When the shopowner got a whiff of stealing at his shop, he got the cameras scanned and the whole sequence of events came to light. The lehengas cost about Rs 85,000. Police have launched a probe into the incident and teams have been formed to trace the accused

Not the 1st incident, Burqa gang under lens

This is not the first incident of day-light burglary by burqa gang. Police suspect that a group of women are secretly hatching a plot and executing such misdeeds.

Not much long ago, the cops got hold of a similar burqa gang. After arresting them, the cops recovered expensive jewelleries from their custody. Suspecting a similar modus operandi, the police had launched a probe into the incident.