This news has facepalm written all over it. After delighting us with his "Modi detractors should be sent to Pakistan" remark during the Lok Sabha Elections, BJP MP Giriraj Singh has another gem to offer.



Thieves burgled his home and reportedly took "Rs 50,000 and some jewellery” as per his FIR. But when they were caught, the police recovered Rs 1.14 crore, US $600, seven expensive wrist watches, 10 sets of gold jewellery, 14 pieces of silver coins and a video camera. And on being asked about the source of the money, an alarmed Giriraj Singh said the money belonged to his “cousin” and all this was a political conspiracy.

So what really happened? The four accused including the Nawada MP's bodyguard, domestic servant, apartment security guard and another accomplice entered his flat yesterday when he was away in Delhi, they said

"It was a well planned theft. The arrested persons had inside knowledge about the valuables kept in the MP's flat. They broke the locks, collected everything in four suitcases and decamped with the booty. They had even hired an autorickshaw to take the stolen goods," Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.

But an alert police (as they ever are for complaints registered by netas) set up a special investigation team and successfully nabbed the burglars.

The police arrested two theft accused - Virendra Kumar alias Man Singh alias Jitendra and Dinesh Kumar alias Guddu. Virendra is a security guard of the apartment block in which the flat is located. Dinesh is a criminal who was hired by the people who burgled the MP's flat. The MP's domestic help Lakshman, cook Sadanand and Virendra plotted the crime and hired Dinesh to assist them.

But the biggest mystery of the whole filmi incident has become centred on the multiplying money and the supposed magical abilities of the thief Dinesh, who basically converted Giriraj Singh’s paltry sum of Rs 50,000 into Rs 1.14 crore, all in the space of a single day

Also, there a new found interest in Giriraj’s super rich cousin, who just happens to keep his money and valuables (worth Rs 2 crore) in his ‘vulnerable to political attacks by blood-thirsty opposition’ relatives' home.

"The money which was burgled from my house is not mine but my cousin's. He is going to clarify it to everyone. All this is a planned political conspiracy against me," said Singh.

Because clearly, the goods cannot belong to the MP, as in his election affidavit says he owned only Rs 2 lakh in cash (not Rs 2 crore). He is without doubt an honest politician with a horrible sense of selecting domestic helpers and a dictionary which doesn’t have the word black money in it. Oh, he also has a careless and filthy rich cousin with poor communication skills, who didn't inform him before hiding all that money in his house.

Maybe he had just loaned Giriraj the money for him to buy a lot many tickets to Pakistan, now that Modi is PM.