Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi

New Delhi, Jul 12: A routine phone-snatching case in South Delhi has unravelled a sensational story of betrayal, exposing an extramarital affair and a wife's desperate attempt to cover it up.

The incident, initially reported as a street crime on June 19, took a dramatic turn after South Delhi Police scanned footage from over 70 CCTV cameras. What they uncovered was startling the snatching was staged by the victim’s own wife to erase compromising photos linking her to another man.

According to South Delhi DCP Ankit Chauhan, the victim had filed a complaint stating that two men on a scooty had snatched his phone near the Old UK Paint Factory. The case appeared ordinary until investigators dug deeper.

The breakthrough came when an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera in Vasant Kunj captured the scooty’s registration number. The vehicle had been rented for a day from Daryaganj. Using the Aadhaar and mobile number used for the rental, police traced the accused, Ankit Gehlot, to Balotra in Rajasthan’s Barmer district.

Upon his arrest, Ankit Gehlot revealed the shocking truth: he had been hired by the victim’s wife to snatch the phone. The motive? Her intimate photos with her lover were stored on her husband's device. Fearing exposure, she planned the theft and shared her husband’s daily routine, route, and office timings with the accused.

Police have since recovered the stolen phone and arrested both Ankit and the woman. Media reports suggest that the husband had suspected the affair and secretly transferred the compromising photos to his phone while his wife was asleep.

Investigators said the woman panicked after discovering the photos had been backed up and chose to eliminate the evidence through an elaborate plan — one that has now landed her behind bars.