House Help Flees With Delhi Employer's Cash, Jewellery, Arrested From Odisha: Police

The gold and diamond ornaments and Rs 2,530 out of the stolen amount of Rs 13,000 have been recovered from the woman (26), who was hired by a telecom export promotion council official in December last year through an acquaintance.

A house help who fled with her Delhi employer's cash and jewellery worth over Rs 45 lakh was arrested with the help of technical surveillance of the phones of random people she used on the way to her home in Odisha, the police said Thursday. The gold and diamond ornaments and Rs 2,530 out of the stolen amount of Rs 13,000 have been recovered from the woman (26), who was hired by a telecom export promotion council official in December last year through an acquaintance, they said. Police said that they received a complaint on July 22 from Sarbani Dasgupta, a deputy director in the Telecom Export Promotion Council, about a theft at her house in Paryavaran Complex. During enquiry, it was found that the complainant had engaged a fulltime house help in December last year but her police verification was not done, they added.