KOLKATA: Police arrested two youths for allegedly stealing cash, ornaments, gadgets and showpieces worth a whooping Rs 2.53 crores from the house of a prominent businessman at
Shovabazar area where they were employed as domestic helps.
Police said, the incident had happened at Kajaria Sadan -- a three-storeyed building beside Seth Anandram
Jaipuria College on Jatindra Mohan Avenue – sometime between August 11 and August 14, when most of the family members were away for a vacation. The house belongs to leading ceramic tiles giant in the country.
The complaint was lodged on August 14 evening by Vijay Kumar Agarwal, one of the house owners at
Shyampukur police station. “According to the complaint, the owners returned to the house on August 14 from a vacation and found several items missing from the house and the house almirahs ransacked. Two of the domestic help were missing from the house and they doubted them behind the heist and accordingly lodged a complaint against them,” said a senior officer at Lalbazar.
Acting on the complaint and gathering evidences from the
CCTV cameras installed inside and outside the house, police started a hunt for Sunil Yadav, 20 and Surinder Rai, 21, both residents of Banka district in Bihar, who had joined work at the house eight months ago.
“We sent a team of officers to Bihar but they could not be traced there. We continued to track them and found a lead that they had come back to Kolkata. Accordingly one of our teams who were on the lookout at Kolkata station arrested them on Wednesday night when they were loitering around the parking lot. Questioning them, most of the stolen items were also recovered from a safe house on Thursday,” said the officer.
The officer added the stolen items include a number of gold and diamond studded necklaces, several gold and diamond bangles and earrings, around 30 gold and silver plated wrist watches, hundreds of silver and gold coins, diamond and golden bracelets and several other silver and brass utensils and showpieces.
The duo were produced before a city court on Thursday and was remanded into police custody.
Stolen items
