Nagpur: A family feud over inheritance resulted in a theft case being registered at Ajni police station. Earlier this week, a 33-year-old man allegedly broke the lock of his late father’s shop, walked off with marriage documents of his mother, property documents, cash, gold coins and a CCTV system, and then locked the premises himself. The man, along with the mother, has been named as accused in the theft case.Police said the accused stole the documents to help his mother get property share. “The accused’s father had made the will in favour of another woman, dissociating with his first wife and son. The son took the law in hand,” said a police source.The cops have registered the case on the complaint of the daughter of the woman who inherited the deceased man’s property. The complainant woman told officers that the deceased man, who owned a shop, died of a heart ailment in August. He first married the accused’s mother and later married the complainant’s mother.The accused, the first wife’s son, was kept out of the will, cops said. Cops added that the two families occupied separate floors of the same building.According to the complaint, the accused pair broke the lock, removed papers relating to the father’s marriages, divorce and immovable property, along with cash and gold coins whose value has not been quantified.Ajni police recorded the complaint, inspected the shop on Manewada Cement Road and registered offences of housebreaking and theft. Neither accused has been arrested so far. No stolen articles have been recovered.
