KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Oct 16: Unknown criminals decamped with ornaments and other valuable worth lakhs of rupees from the residence of an IS&WP (Indian Steel & Wire Products) company officer at Telco sometime between Tuesday morning and Thursday night.
The criminals took away the ornaments which include a diamond-studded necklace while the owner of the house, Abhijit Gupta, had gone with his family to Rourkela for celebrating Durga Puja at his parental house there.
Gupta who is Deputy Manager in the IS&WP, now a sister concern of Tata Steel, had gone out of station having given his maid responsibility to look after the residence located at Telco Colony.
On Friday morning, a neighbour saw the lock on the front door of the house broken and had informed Gupta about it. Having got the information, the victim returned to the city late on Friday night and found the burglary at his house.
Having broken open the door lock, the burglars had broken a steel almirah from where they took away the ornaments and also Rs 15,000 cash kept in it.
In this connection, Gupta lodged an FIR with the Telco police station against unknown persons on Saturday morning.
The Telco thana OC, Ajay Kumar confirmed the burglary at the IS&WP company officer’s residence.
“We have picked up Gupta’s maid and his cook for interrogation as such crime cannot be conspired without the involvement of someone close to the family. We will solve the case soon,” said the OC.
He said the exact worth of the ornaments and valuables is yet to be estimated, but it would be of over Rs 5 lakhs.
The victim’s family members said the maid has been working at their house for the past six years and they had full faith in her.
