Vimla Devi, a Shastri Park resident, complained to the police that she had received Rs 17 lakh after selling a piece of land at her native village and handed over the cash to her younger daughter-in-law.
Devi alleged in her complaint that after a quarrel between her son Sushil Kumar and the daughter-in-law on July 12, the woman took away the money with her, said Ajit Kumar Singla, DCP (northeast).
Police questioned the woman at her paternal home in Aligarh where she had gone after the quarrel with her husband Kumar. She denied the charges but the stolen cash was found hidden beneath a heap of husk at her maternal uncle Umesh's house in Aligarh, Singla said.