'Decent' salesman goes AWOL after stealing jewellery

Ornaments worth Rs 6.5 lakh stolen from three-day-old D'damas outlet at Bandra

Jewellery shops are always vulnerable targets for thieves, but the D'damas outlet at Linking Road, Bandra, was only three days old when a salesman quietly slipped out of the shop with jewellery worth Rs 6.5 lakh.
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The salesman, Mukesh Parmar (24), has been captured on CCTV, and the Khar police are now on the lookout for him.

Fake address

Before the outlet was inaugurated on June 22, Parmar was chosen from among 10 men who had applied for the job. Parmar, who claimed he was from Bikaner, Rajasthan, looked "decent" and was hired.

And three days later, while jewellery was being put into the locker around 9 pm, Parmar stuffed some of them into his shirt and pretended to continue doing his routine work before leaving the shop. He has not returned to work since then.

The showroom's manager, Louis Vaz, realised the jewellery was missing the next day and decided to contact Parmar who had not reported to work.
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After several calls went unanswered, Vaz complained the police. But the extent of the con became clear only whenu00a0 the police visited the Mahesw-ari Nagar, Andheri, address he had listed on his resume and realised it was fake.



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69 bangles

"I trusted him and gave him a job, but he betrayed my trust," said the outlet's owner. Added Vaz, "In all 69 gold bangles, necklaces and other ornaments are missing. Mukesh was a reserved person and would hardly talk to anyone. We never suspected him."
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Assistant Police Inspector

N B Sonawane of Khar police station said his team had visited almost all shops at Zaveri Bazaar, where Parmar was likely to sell the jewellery, but could not trace him.
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Sonawane hopes the CCTV grabs will be helpful in nailing him.