The Delhi Police has arrested a house help, who had decamped with her Delhi employer’s cash and jewellery worth over Rs 45 lakh. The accused was arrested after technical surveillance was mounted on the phones of random people she used on the way to her home in Odisha.
Police said that they have also recovered the gold and diamond ornaments and Rs 2,530 out of the stolen amount of Rs 13,000 have been recovered from the 26 year-old woman, who was hired by a telecom export promotion council official in December last year through an acquaintance.
According to Atul Kumar Thakur, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South district, a complaint was received on July 22 from Sarbani Dasgupta, a deputy director in the Telecom Export Promotion Council, about a theft at her house in Paryavaran Complex.
“During enquiry, it was found that the complainant had engaged a full time house help in December last year but her police verification was not done. Dasgupta alleged in her complaint that on July 22 she came home after attending her brother's marriage in Kolkata and went to work after keeping all her jewellery in a cupboard,” said the DCP.
“When she returned in the evening, she found that her house was open and ransacked, and the help was missing alongwith the jewellery and the cash. She got suspicious and called her house help but her phone was switched off,” said the DCP.
“A police team was sent to the native village of the house help in Odisha's Bhubaneshwar. As there was no direct bus services from Delhi to Bhubaneshwar due to Covid restrictions, the accused changed several buses and took other means of transport to reach Odisha,” said the DCP.
“The accused woman used the mobile phone of shopkeepers, bus driver and co-passengers to call her husband and friends. On the basis of these phone calls, our team managed to track her route. On the basis of a technical surveillance, the team managed to arrest the accused from Odisha and she has been brought to Delhi,” said the DCP.