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Nepalese worker drugs cashier, steals ₹6 lakh from Ludhiana factory
Had been working as an office boy at the T-shirt factory for the past four years, also stole his employer’s scooter, say police
A Nepalese worker stole ₹6 lakh from a hosiery factory after drugging the cashier and also made off with his employer’s scooter in Sunder Nagar on Tuesday.
The matter came to fore after other employees found the cashier unconscious and the accused, Raju, missing.
Factory owner Navratan Sharma of Swami Vivekanand Apartments, Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar, told the police that Raju had been working as an office boy at his t-shirt factory for the past four years.
On Tuesday, Raju served tea to some workers and the cashier, Shawal Mall. The tea served to Mall was spiked with a sedative. As he lost consciousness, Raju stole ₹6 lakh in cash from the safe and fled with his scooter as well, Sharma alleged.
Sub-inspector Davinder Kumar, station house officer (SHO), Daresi police station, said a case under Sections 381 (theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master) and 328 (causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence) of the Indian Penal Code had been registered against Raju.
His father and brother also work at the same factory, but have claimed ignorance about his intentions and whereabouts.
Police have launched a manhunt for Raju’s arrest.
Employees on the prowl
January 27: A Nepalese domestic help stole ₹11 lakh in cash and jewellery worth ₹18 lakh from his employer’s house. The employer had not gotten his police verification done
January 2: Hired just five days ago, a domestic help decamped with ₹6 lakh in cash, and gold and diamond jewellery from the house of a hosiery unit owner in Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar. At the time of the incident, the owner was at his factory, while his family had gone out
October 7, 2020: A Nepalese domestic help, along with his two accomplices, stole cash and jewellery from the house of a hosiery owner in Gurdev Nagar. An elderly woman, along with another servant, aged 11, and a security guard were present at home, while the other family members had gone out for dinner when the crime was executed. The accused had sedated the security guard and injured the child
February 12, 2020: An attempt by a domestic help and his three accomplices to drug a Model Town Extension family and rob them was foiled by alert neighbours.
