Caught on camera: Electrician wearing PPE kit steals jewellery worth Rs 20 cr

Electrician Sheikh Nur Rehman had meticulously planned a perfect burglary or at least he thought so in his employers jewellery showroom in Kalkaji and seemed headed for a glittering future with over Rs 20crore booty But within hours as illluck would have it he was in police crosshairs and cooling his heels behind barsWhen Rehman 25 took leave on January 10 to visit his native place in West Bengal no one suspected anything amissOn January 20 the jewellery showroom owner reported to Kalkaji police that a man wearing a PPE kit who broke into his premises in PPE kit had fled with jewellery valued at more than Rs 20 crore Though the burglar was caught on CCTV no one knew his identityWATCH A man dressed in a Personal Protective EquipmentPPE kit engages in theft in a jewellery shop in the Kalkaji area of DelhiVisuals from the CCTV footage of the shop pictwittercomcWQph6k4IJmdash ANI ANI January 21 2021When Kalkaji police station SHO and his team visited the spot after report of burglary on the ground floor of the showroom they found that most ornaments had been taken from the show window on the ground floor and drawers The burglar had entered through a fibre sheet on the buildings roof and then down the stairs to the main shop on the ground floor A lock on the iron grill on the 3rd floor was also found brokenPolice teams scrutinised the CCTV footage from the showroom neighbouring buildings and adjoining areas and also carried out verification of the antecedents of present and former staff including security guards Even tenants living in adjoining buildings were questionedSHO Sandeep Ghai and SubInspector Vinod Kumar under the supervision of Kalkaji ACP Govind Sharma zeroed in on the suspect after coming to know that he had gone on leave earlier his month on the pretext of visiting his native village Dighneshwar in Hooghly districtPolice finally traced Rehman to a densely populated area of Karol Bagh within a record time and recovered all stolen jewellery articles and cash He was working at the showroom for around a yearDuring questioning the accused confessed to the burglary as he wanted to avenge his humiliation and harassment by his colleagues at the showroom Being a technical hand he learnt to operate tools like pressure and gas cutters etc for housebreaking said RP Meena DCP SouthEast DelhiRehman told police that before proceeding on leave he had meticulously planned the crime by doing a recce of the area to select the spot to breakin into the showroom He identified one of the adjoining buildings with uninhabited flats to climb up to reach the showroom roof He also prepared a list of articles and equipment he would need to break inPolice seized jewellery Rs 23000 in cash pressure iron cutter screwdriver torch rope and PPE kit he was wearing at the time of crime from his possessionThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever