Two actresses working in TV crime shows were on 16th June arrested for allegedly stealing Rs. 3.5 lakh from an apartment at Aarey Colony in Bombay in the last week of May. The two, Surbhi Shrivastava and Moina Shaikh, had intended to flee to Delhi.
The complaint was filed by Fatima Sayyad who lived as a paying guest in the apartment. Fatima had gone out of town when the landlord fell ill. Surbhi and Moina, who knew him, visited him and stayed over for a day. Later, when Fatima returned home, she found her Rs. 3.5 lakh missing and filed a police complaint on 29th May.
The police saw the CCTV footage of the building and picked up the two actresses on 16th June. A total of Rs. 50,000 was recovered from them.