Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Jan 16: The Bantwal police, who took up a complaint of robbery of a neck chain with total earnestness, found at the end of their investigation that the complainant had actually weaved a cock and bull story.

Shantha Nayak, resident of Jakribettu here, had visited the downtown on some purpose. She was returning home by foot when two men who came in a motorbike near her home, accosted her, and escaped after pulling away a three sovereign neck chain worn by her. The incident had happened on January 8, as per her version. The lady said that after the robbery she directly returned home, and she had suffered injury to her back when the chain was being snatched.

 
Bantwal police station (file photo)

After her daughter came home from her job at Mangaluru in the evening, Shantha explained what had happened. Her daughter led Shantha to the town police station here and got a complaint lodged. Bantwal police circle inspector T D Nagaraj, who treated the case as serious, formed an investigation team led by town station police sub-inspector Avinash, and crime sub-inspector Kalaimar, and Nagaraj himself began to follow the case.

The police checked CCTV camera footage but failed to get indication of any strange act having happened on the road leading to the senior citizen's house on January 8. Then they questioned the lady in depth after which the lady confessed that she had handed over her gold chain to a relative for some purpose. As she was wary of getting reprimanded by her daughter relating to this act, she decided to concoct the robbery story. She also inflicted scratch injury on her back on her own to make it look genuine.

After finding that they put in so much effort in vain on the basis of a fake story, the police have since approached the court seeking to file a case against Shantha Nayak.