Delhi Police has arrested a domestic help who had absconded with Rs 10 lakhs and expensive electronic gadgets from a house in Sainik Farms in South Delhi.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, south district, Ishwar Singh, said the accused has been identified as Imtiaz Khan (Name changed as he is a juvenile), a resident of Assam. Police have recovered Rs 6.01 lakhs from the accused along with the stolen electronic gadgets. On May 30, complainant Harcharan Singh, a resident of Sainik Farms, had reported that in the afternoon, he left for IGI Airport to pick his wife leaving behind three servants at his house.
“When he came back, he found that Rs 10 lakhs, which he had kept for distributing the salary among the employees of his factory in Himachal Pradesh, had been stolen. He further reported that his servant Imtiaz Khan (name changed) might have stolen the cash as he was missing after the incidents,” said DCP Ishwar Singh.
In order to trace and apprehended the domestic servant, a police team was formed and obtained mobile phone number and other details of the accused.
The police team conducted several raids at the possible hideouts of the accused in Delhi but his movement was not traced as he kept on travelling and was changing his location frequently. The police team continued its efforts and on receipt of specific input, they were dispatched for Assam and with the assistance of Railway Police in Assam, the domestic help apprehended from lamding Railway Station, said the police official.