nagpur four housewivesturnedthieves rounded up by pachpaoli police team this week claimed during interrogation that domestic violence forced them to take up thefts for easy money their attempt to become vegetable vendors had failed in the past leaving them in further financial mess they saidfinancial concerns apart their husbands relentless demand for money to consume liquor physical violence and doubting their character had forced these women to do something drastic to get easy and fast moneythe women said their alcoholic husbands were jobless leaving them with the responsibility of providing for the family especially the children or starving and sufferingthe gang of gajendrabai gosavi 40 savita gosavi 30 jyoti gosavi 30 and pavitra gosavi 35 and their autorickshaw drivercumaccomplice mohd anwar khan 32 was rounded up after their involvement in theft of batteries from an inverter at kashmiri lane near kamal chowk in june was reported to the policefollowing clues from cctv footage the pachpaoli police team of senior inspector vaibhav jadhav subinspectors tm dhakulkar jeetendra bhargav head constable gnyaneshwar bhoge constables gagan yadav shubhangi borkar chitra nandanwar and others first managed to zero down upon khan who subsequently helped nab the four womenits learnt gajendrabai and savita had previous records at gittikhadan and kotwali police stations the cops feel the gang may be behind several other thefts but has only been cracked nowthe pachpaoli police have also cracked another case in which the gang had stolen compressors of an ac kept outside a shop near azam shah chowkpolice said the women would pose as garbage cleaners and sweepers in the day to go around the city to recee and observe valuables kept outside houses shops or offices like batteries ac compressors etcthe women would step out between 230am and 3am call up their autorickshaw driver and head towards localities where they had spotted something worth stealing earlier in the day said the cops the women had also tied up with scrap dealers to whom they would hand over the stolen materials for whatever price they got easily the source added