Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Sep 4: The Pandeshwar police here have succeeded in cracking a case of theft of gold and diamond jewellery within three days of receiving the complaint. A couple has been arrested and gold ornaments worth Rs 48 lac have been recovered.

Shankari Rai, resident of Suvarna Lane, Kankanady in the city, had filed a complaint in Pandeshwar police station on August 31, alleging that gold and diamond ornaments worth over Rs 48 lac, which she had kept in the box inside the dressing table in her bedroom when she went for taking bath, had gone missing. She had expressed suspicion about the involvement of her part time domestic help, Parvati (28), in the theft.

Police inspector, Dinkar Shetty, who tried to contact Parvati and question her, found out that she had vacated her rented home at Bajal in the city and went away without a trace. She had not even given her proper address to the house owners.

The policemen, who gathered intelligence reports about the whereabouts of the domestic help, went to Nittuvalli in Davanager taluk and arrested Parvati and her husband Puttaraju (42), who had stayed put in the house of a relative there. Puttaraju, it is gathered, had also played a role in the theft. After arresting them on September 3, the policemen recovered the items stolen by them.

The couple had been working at different spots in the city since the last five years, and used to change their workplaces and places of residences once in three to four months, the policemen have found.

The investigation was conducted under the guidance of city police commissioner, S Murugan, and deputy commissioner of police, K M Shantaraj.