Domestic help held for stealing cash and jewellery from his employer's house

A domestic help working was arrested along with two others from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly stealing diamond and gold jewellery worth more than Rs 2 crore from his employers house in Mumbai last month police said on Tuesday reported news agency PTIMumbai crime Valuables and Rs 7 lakh cash stolenThe valuables and Rs 7 lakh cash were stolen last month when the complainant had gone to Goa for a wedding an official saidThe prime accused is identified as Niranjan Bahelia 41 and two others as Ramchelwa Maku Paswan alias Gutia 26 and jeweller Jaiprakash Harishankar Rastogi 59 reported PTILast month Bahelia and Paswan allegedly broke open the cupboard in the bedroom of his employers house and fled reported PTIMumbai crime CCTV camera footagesPolice scanned CCTV camera footages of the locality Bahelia and Paswan were nabbed with the help of technical evidence Rastogi was held for helping them sell the stolen jewellery Another jeweller is wanted he said reported PTIDiamond and gold jewellery worth Rs 1 core and Rs 145 lakh were recoveredMumbai crime Other incidentsIn another case police have cracked a major theft case in which jewellery worth Rs 33 lakh was stolen from a house at Virar in Maharashtras Palghar district by arresting two persons an official said on Tuesday reported PTIThe accused Sonu Sheikh 43 and Motilal Soni were arrested from Thane city deputy commissioner of police Virar zoneIII Jayant Bajbale said adding stolen jewellery worth Rs 2765 lakh was recovered from their possession reported PTIThieves had entered the house at Dongarpada in Virar during the intervening night of April 24 25 and made way with 470 gm of jewellery worth Rs 33 lakh when the family members were away The Virar police had registered an FIR under sections 380 theft 454 house breaking and 457 tresspassing to commit offence of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of a complaintWorking on various leads including CCTV footage technical and intelligence inputs the probe team zeroed in on the main accused Sheikh said senior police inspector Vijay PawarAfter getting a tipoff that the accused was staying in the Vasant Vihar locality police laid a trap on April 27 and nabbed him from Manpada reported PTIDuring interrogation he told the police he had sold the stolen ornaments to one Motilal Soni who sits outside jewellers shops and deals with old and imitation jewellery Police traced Soni and arrested him the same day said the officialThe police said the main accused Sheikh was a habitual offender and facing a number of criminal cases at various police stations in Mumbai and ThaneWith inputs from PTI