Aparna Ruth Wilson, 30, and her husband, Naresh Kumar Sagar, 31, stole jewellery and cash worth Rs 2.45 crore from actor Sonam Kapoor‘s husband Anand Ahuja’s Amrita Shergil Marg residence over 11 months and sold them to goldsmith Dev Verma, 41, who used the money to pay off their debt, cover their parents’ treatment costs, and buy one used i-10 car, police said on Thursday, a day after the three were arrested for the theft.

Officers from the crime branch, who apprehended the three suspects, claimed they found jewellery and gems worth Rs. 1.25 crore from their possession.

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Wilson and Sagar, an accountant, who planned to steal the jewellery and cash, were caught on Wednesday, according to Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.

“We have also arrested the goldsmith (Dev Verma), who purchased the stolen articles and recovered the stolen ornaments from his possession. The recovered items include 100 diamonds, six gold chains, six diamond bangles, one diamond bracelet, two tops, one brass coin and one Hyundai i-10 car. The approximate value of recovered articles has been determined Rs 1.32 crore,” he said.

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Wilson is a native of Lucknow, according to Yadav, and she earned a certificate in nursing from Prayagraj in 2013. “She worked as a nurse at a hospital in Dehradun till 2015 before shifting to Delhi, where she took up a job at a private nursing home in Pashchim Vihar. In the interim, she worked at several local nursing homes and hospitals, before getting a job at a big private hospital in the city. In 2017, she got married to Sagar, who she met on Facebook,” stated the special commissioner.

Sonam Kumar’s mother-in-law was hospitalised in the same hospital in 2020, according to Yadav. “The hospital deputed one nurse, Premlata, for taking care of her. After some days, Premlata informed her friend Wilson that the Ahuja family was looking for one more nurse to look after her at their house in New Delhi. Wilson has been visiting the Ahuja residence since March 2021. During her visits to the house, she observed that a lot of jewellery and cash were kept in an almirah. One day, she told her husband about it and the couple conspired to steal the jewellery and cash. Sagar asked her to steal one ornament at a time so as not to alarm the house owners,” Yadav explained.

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Wilson, according to the special commissioner, used to steal ornaments and cash after administering sedatives to the patient in whose room she took the jewellery from. “The theft went on for nearly 11 months. Wilson used to hand over the stolen articles to her husband, and he sold them to jewellers and other persons. With the money acquired over these months, the couple paid off their debt, covered expenses on their parents’ medical treatment, and also purchased one second-hand i-10 car,” he explained.

According to Rohit Meena, the DCP (crime) who spearheaded the operation, Sagar is from Rustam Nagar in the UP district of Moradabad. “He did his B.Com from Chandausi and MBA from a college in Meerut. In 2015, he met Wilson on Facebook and they got married in 2017. Sagar has confessed that he sold the stolen jewellery at different shops in south Delhi’s Kalkaji. While the owner of one of the shops has been arrested, the others are at large. Our team is raiding their possible hideouts,” he explained.

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Meena stated that Verma admitted to purchasing the stolen jewellery from Naresh. He stated that he used to pay him in cash as well as online. “Many valuable articles were recovered from his shop in Kalkaji. He has also told the police that several others ornaments that he had bought from Sagar were smelt to make jewellery,” Meena added.