Successfully solving a theft case in the house of a leading plastic surgeon here, the city police on Friday arrested the surgeon’s maid servant and her son in this connection. The police also recovered a substantial amount of the stolen cash and gold ornaments from the accused mother-son duo.
The Cuttack Sadar police said the owner of the plastic surgery nursing home here on the outskirts of the city at Balikuda had complained of a felony in his house stating that hard cash of nearly Rs 40 lakh and gold ornaments worth over Rs 3 lakh were missing. Tracking the telephone calls of the domestic helps, the police zeroed in on the maid, Padma alias Natramani Patra, who confessed of her crime after being questioned.
Raiding her son’s house in Cuttack city, the police recovered the stolen cash and ornaments, informed local ACP Nimai Charan Sethy. Both the maid and her son were forwarded to the court on the day.