Diamond forgotten in pocket gets stolen

KOLKATA: Having kept a diamond worth Rs 6 lakh in his trousers’ pockets and forgotten about it, diamond merchant Vikas Jain was worried sick when he could not find it. He had given the pair of trousers to his servant to get it washed. However, when he remembered about the diamond and confronted the servant, Anirudh Yadav (34), the latter denied having found it and fled to his hometown Bankha in Bihar the next day.

Jain, a resident of the CJ Block in Salt Lake, remembered about the piece of stone on January 15. He then asked Yadav if he had found it while washing the trousers, but Yadav denied and fled the next day. Growing suspicious, Jain lodged a police complaint against Yadav, his employee of two years.

The Bidhannagar Police immediately swung into action and launched a manhunt, following which Yadav was tracked to Bankha. He was arrested on Sunday and brought to Kolkata on transit remand.

The diamond was recovered from him. “We are trying to find out if he had stolen anything else,” an investigating officer said. “Getting the details of a servant verified always helps. It helped us track Yadav to Bankha as we had a hunch where he might have fled,” he added.