House maid, two others arrested for loot

RAJKOT: Rajkot crime branch on Wednesday detained three persons including a woman from Junagadh in connection with a robbery of cash and jewellery from a house on posh University road in the city couple of days ago.
Among the three detained is Sushila, who worked as a maid in the house of Urvashi Unadkatat in Kohinoor Apartment near Indira Circle on 150 Feet Ring Road.

Police said that it was a planned robbery that Sushila executed with help of her two aides, whose names are yet to be disclosed by the police. Police have also recovered the Rs 3 lakh cash and 300 gram gold jewellery that was stolen.
According to the case details, Unadkat was tied to a chair at her home and then robbed of Rs 3 lakh in cash and around 300 gram of gold jewellery by Sushila and her aides on Monday.
The incident took place when Unadkat and her son Asim were at home. Asim is into the business of dates with his father Rajendra. According to Unadkat, she and her son were sleeping in separate rooms around noon when their maid Sushila came to do her routine work. Suddenly she woke up by some noise and found that Sushila, along with a man, was looking into the cupboard in the bedroom. When she confronted them, they both tied her legs and hands to a chair and put tape on her mouth. The two then took cash and jewellery and disappeared. Asim was made unconscious.
Explaining the modus operandi of the robbers, deputy commissioner of police (crime branch) Parthraj Gohil, after committing a robbery Sushila and her live-in partner went to their residence in Vaishalinagar in an auto. There Sushila broke her mobile phone before fleeing to Junagadh along with her partner and another housemate.
He said that police located the auto driver who dropped Sushila and her aides at Gondal Chokdi from Vaishalinagar. From Gondal highway the accused took a private vehicle to Junagadh. The trio took shelter at a guest house in Bhavnath Taleti. “Based on the technical surveillance and informers we came to know that they were hiding in Junagadh. We were looking at the possible hideout and after searching around 30 guest houses we found them and also recovered the looted material,” Gohil said.