A case of theft has been registered against a girl and her boyfriend after she allegedly handed over her family’s jewellery to him to get money to celebrate their common birthday. To save herself and him, she also tried to frame up another friend of hers, a minor, by accusing him of blackmail, Assistant Commissioner of Police Nilesh Sonawane told reporters on Wednesday.

On January 7, the teenage girl approached the Kapurbawdi police in the city with a complaint that her boyfriend had clicked her obscene pictures and blackmailed her for money. She was compelled to steal jewellery from her house and hand it over to him, she told police. The boy initially told the police that he sold off her jewellery.