CHENNAI: The Madras HC has directed the CB-CID to hold investigation on a complaint from a woman alleging that an inspector attached to MGR Nagar police station had taken away her 60 sovereign jewellery, and complete the investigation within three months.Justice D Hariparanthaman gave the direction on a petition from Jeera Behgam.According to petitioner, she gave her jewellery to her sister Shaheela for safe custody in her house. Subsequently, Shaheela’s jewellery were stolen from her house but petitioner’s jewellery were intact and Shaheela returned them to her. On a complaint from Shaheela’s husband, a theft case was registered. Thereafter, when the petitioner wanted to go to Bangalore, where her daughter Sarah was employed, the jewellery were given to Sarah’s colleague Ameer Abbas, working in Chennai. Ameer kept the jewellery in the locker of his brother-in-law Abdul Aziz in the SBI, Vadapalani branch.While so, Seetharaman, the inspector investigating the theft case, came to her residence on Jan 13, 2011, and enquired about the jewelleries returned to her and took away the purchase bills. Informing Ameer and Abdul that he entertained suspicion on the jewellery that were kept in the locker, Seetharaman took them away from the locker. He also enquired petitioner’s another daughter Safura. The next day Safura was arrested and remanded. Later she came out on bail. However, Seetharaman did not return the jewellery. Petitioner made several representations to various authorities stating that her daughter was falsely implicated in the case and her jewellery were illegally taken away by the inspector. Since, there was no response, she filed the present petition.
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