Ahmedabad: The incidents of theft and dacoity are increasing in Ahmedabad. Such complaints are coming that only those employed for domestic work are stealing from the house on seeing the opportunity. A complaint was lodged at the Satellite Police Station following an incident of theft of Rs 14 lakh by a person working in a house in Satellite area of Ahmedabad, one and a half year ago. The police involved in the investigation have arrested the accused within a few hours and recovered cash worth Rs 6.64 lakh from him.
The team of the surveillance squad was in patrolling when the information was received from the informer. On the basis of this information, the accused were arrested and taken to Tagore Park police station and interrogated and told that they are residents of Rajasthan. Police have recovered Rs 6.40 lakh in cash and mobile phones worth Rs 6.64 lakh from the three accused Kishan Parmar, Ishwar Meena and Vinod Meena. These three accused used to steal from a locked house at night. An elderly woman named Pareshben Shah living in satellite area of Ahmedabad has filed a complaint with the police. He has said in the complaint that on April 30 last, Shivabhai, Mohanbhai, Nareshbhai and his wife, who worked in his house, were present in the servant room of my house. My son Meet had gone to visit Uttarakhand with his family. When the health of the younger daughter deteriorated, he left for Ahmedabad by plane. When my housekeeper went to clean the upstairs room, the door of the upstairs room was open and the safe kept in the room was missing.
Meanwhile, my son came to Ahmedabad and saw in the CCTV camera that the person who entered the house was doing the same as Kishan Deora, who used to work at my house a year and a half ago. Simultaneously, three other persons entered through the back door and took Rs 14 lakh in cash, five checks of Bank India, four checks of other banks and a pen drive containing the office ledger. He had taken this safe away. Based on the complaint, the police took further action and arrested the accused within a few hours.
