A ninth-grader boy in India stole his mother’s gold jewellery to gift his girlfriend an iPhone for her birthday.
The incident occurred in the Najafgarh area of the Indian capital, New Delhi, as per Indian media.
The police said that on August 3, the woman filed a complaint stating that on August 2, between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., an unknown person stole two gold chains, gold earrings, and a gold ring.
During the investigation, the CCTV footage showed no one entering the house or leaving.
However, the police then turned the scope of the investigation inside the house and found that one of the woman’s sons was missing.
The investigation team then started gathering information about the boy and questioned his school friends.
The boy’s friends told the police that he had a close friendship with a girl in his class and that the two liked each other.
The investigation team then learned that the woman’s son had bought a new iPhone worth Rs 50,000. The team conducted several raids to search for the boy, but each time he managed to escape from the scene.
“We received a tip-off on Tuesday that the boy would come home around 6 pm.
However, as soon as he came home, he was taken into custody, and later, an iPhone was recovered from his possession,” the police stated.
The young boy is a student in class 9 and studies in a private school in Najafgarh.
The investigation further revealed that the boy had asked his mother for money to buy a gift on his girlfriend’s birthday, but due to her limited resources, the mother refused to give him the money.
Enraged at the refusal, the boy stole the gold ornaments from the house, sold them to a goldsmith, and bought an iPhone.
Delhi police have arrested the goldsmith and recovered the woman’s jewellery.
