A widow in Madhya Pradesh's Dindori district has accused the Gadasarai police station of twisting her theft complaint into a family and land dispute inside the official FIR. She says lakhs of rupees worth of valuables were stolen from her locked home, and instead of registering it as theft, police recorded it as something else entirely. She has now approached the Superintendent of Police's office demanding justice.
Jewellery worth lakhs vanished on July 1
The woman, Rita Armo, told police in her written complaint at Gadasarai station that she had locked her house and stepped out on July 1, 2026. When she returned, she found the lock broken and her belongings scattered across the house. According to Rita, gold and silver jewellery along with other valuables worth an estimated Rs 4 to 5 lakh were missing. In her complaint, she named certain acquaintances she suspects and alleged they had conspired together to carry out the theft. She has asked police to recover the stolen items and take legal action against those responsible.
Theft complaint reduced to a family dispute in the FIR
Rita's central grievance is that Gadasarai police did not register the case as theft the way her written complaint described it. Instead, she alleges, the FIR framed the entire episode as a family and land related dispute. She says this has not only changed the nature of her original complaint but has also stalled a fair investigation into the theft itself. According to her, rewording the FIR this way works directly in favour of the accused and weakens her case.
SP office offered only assurances
Hoping for justice, Rita also went to the Superintendent of Police's office in Dindori, but she says she received only an assurance there, with no concrete action taken on her complaint so far. Madhya Pradesh Police generally allows citizens to register complaints, including property related crimes, and have them investigated, but Rita's experience has run counter to that. An attempt was made to get the police's version of events, but no official response had come in by the time this report was filed. Earlier in June, thieves struck multiple locations one after another in the Suwasra area of Mandsaur district, and their movements were captured on CCTV cameras.
271 lost mobile phones recovered across the district
Separately, Dindori police acted on complaints of lost mobile phones registered across different police station areas in the district, recovering a total of 271 handsets and returning them to their owners. Superintendent of Police Ashish Khare said the district receives a large number of complaints about missing mobile phones and that each one is acted upon immediately. The swift recovery effort shows the police machinery can move fast when it chooses to, which is exactly what makes victims like Rita question why theft and property cases involving lakhs of rupees don't receive the same urgency.
