The domestic help of a trader allegedly decamped with jewellery and cash in UK and Australian currencies from the latter’s house in South Model Gram. The employer came to know about the theft on Monday, one month after the accused left for his village.
Division Number 5 police have registered an FIR against the domestic help, Lovekush alias Chhotu, his father Ganga Ram and his uncle, and asked the employer to provide details of cash and jewellery he has lost to the thieves.
The complainant, Harjit Singh, 49, said he had employed Lovekush four years ago as a domestic help.
In the meantime, they had renovated their house and the domestic help come to know about the safe.
Harjit added that in the past few months, father and uncle of Lovekush had started visiting their house frequently on the pretext of seeing him.
“One month ago, Lovekush left for his ancestral house in Uttar Pradesh citing some emergency. On Monday, when I opened the safe, I found jewellery, some pound sterling and Australian dollars kept there stolen. I suspect that Lovekush opened the safe using a duplicate key and decamped with cash, jewellery and foreign currency,” he told the police.
ASI Gurcharan Singh, who is investigating the case, said the complainant claimed that he had details and documents of the domestic help, but he had not got his police verification done.
{{/usCountry}}ASI Gurcharan Singh, who is investigating the case, said the complainant claimed that he had details and documents of the domestic help, but he had not got his police verification done.
{{/usCountry}}The FIR has been registered under sections 381 and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
A police team has been dispatched to Uttar Pradesh to arrest the accused.
Previous thefts in city
On May 6, a woman in quarantine had foiled a robbery bid at her house after a Nepalese domestic help, who was employed just three days ago, served milk laced with sedatives to her entire family and called his accomplices to execute the crime.
On April 10, a Nepalese help, along with his three accomplices, had held his employer’s family captive and robbed cash and jewellery to the tune of ₹6 lakh from their house in Model Town.
Exactly a month ago, a Nepalese worker had robbed ₹6 lakh from a hosiery factory after offering tea mixed with sedatives to the cashier and also drove away the scooter of his employer.
On January 27, a Nepalese domestic help targeted the house of his employer and decamped with ₹11 lakh and jewellery worth ₹18 lakh. The employer had not got the police verification of the domestic help done.
On January 2, a domestic help, who was hired just five days ago, had decamped with ₹6 lakh, gold and diamond jewellery from the house of a hosiery unit owner in Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar. At the time of the incident, the hosiery unit owner was in his factory, while his family members had gone out.