A spa supervisor in a hotel was arrested during the day on Tuesday, December 28 for committing burglary at the home of her deceased lover in Vacoas. The latter, Parmeshwar Raj Singh, a 36-year-old Indian national, was a driver. Krisnee Devi Hurnam, born Doolub, 38 years old and living in the 16th arrondissement of the city, was subjected to a close interrogation. 38 years old and a resident of 16th Mile, Forest-Side, confessed to the charges against her. She returned part of the Rs 200,000 loot she stole in the early morning hours of December 22 from the victim’s home.
It is an investigation conducted by the men of Inspector Goolab of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of Vacoas, which has cleared up this case. It was in the afternoon of Monday, December 27, that the wife of the deceased, a 38 year old bank employee, made a statement of theft. In her complaint, she explained that she had been married to the deceased for three years and no children were born from this union. In November 2020, she said she learned that her husband was having an extramarital affair with this Forest-Side resident since August of the same year.
On Wednesday, December 22, she said she received a call from the Souillac police station around 8 a.m. informing her that her husband had been found dead in Riambel. The same day, she had gone to her husband’s home in Vacoas around 11 a.m., and while viewing the images of the surveillance cameras of the house for at least an hour, she saw Krisnee Devi Hurnam enter the house at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, December 22.
After an inventory, she found the following items missing, including a Huawei cell phone, a wedding ring with a red colored stone, two silver bracelets, two watches, one gold colored Rolex and the second silver colored, two silver colored house keys and the following documents – a passport, a birth certificate, her late husband’s driver’s license and their marriage certificate. The whole is estimated at Rs 200 000.
Krisnee Devi Hurnam was released on parole after her interrogation late in the afternoon of Tuesday, December 28. However, she was required to return to the CID office in Vacoas on Wednesday 29 December to be brought before the Court of Curepipe.
