Kanpur: In a significant breakthrough, police arrested a personal agency worker in reference to theft of jewelry price Rs 1.8 crore from the locker of Bank of Baroda’s Kidwainagar department within the metropolis.
The miscreant arrested has been recognized as Rohit Shukla, resident of Raipurwa, Anwarganj, who used to keep up lockers within the financial institution. Police mentioned Rohit, had damaged open one other locker throughout restore work and stolen jewelry price Rs 1.8 crore, on September 10, 2021.
Jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore was stolen from a locker of Bank of Baroda’s Kidwai Nagar department. The incident got here to gentle on March 24 when the financial institution buyer visited the financial institution to verify his locker. Police had launched investigation after registering a case beneath part 380 (theft) at Naubasta police station on the grievance of Rama Awasthi, a resident of Basant Vihar Naubasta, a financial institution buyer.
Resident of Basant Vihar, Rama, spouse of Surya Kumar Awasthi, who retired from Ordnance Manufacturing facility, had a locker within the financial institution. Her daughter Shraddha Shukla too owns a locker in the identical department of the financial institution. Final Friday, following an RBI alert, she went to verify the locker.
When she tried to open the locker, she discovered that the locker was damaged and jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore was lacking . Police began the investigation by registering a report towards the department supervisor and different staff of the financial institution. Police scanned the CCTV footage of 18 months and questioned the financial institution officers. It got here to gentle that the lockers had been repaired thrice because the final time Rama had operated the one issued to her. For restore, the financial institution had employed the worker of a personal agency. “When the footage of Sept 8, 2021 and Sept 10, 2021 was scanned, actions of Rohit Shukla was discovered suspicious,” mentioned Commissioner of Police B P Jogdand.
The police have additionally recovered jewelry price Rs 1.80 crore from Rohit.
When the police began questioning him, Rohit confessed to the crime. “Police recovered the jewellery from his home in Raipurwa police station space. During additional interrogation, he additionally confessed to stealing jewelry price Rs 30 lakh from the locker of businessman Ajay Gupta, a resident of Barra, one other financial institution buyer,” mentioned Jogdand. The Police Commissioner has introduced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to the police workforce who labored out the case. He praised DCP South Salman Taj Patil and ADCP Ankita Sharma and really useful their title for the award “We’re writing to the upper officers of the financial institution for motion towards the administration. If financial institution staff are additionally discovered to have a task, motion will likely be taken towards them as effectively,” he mentioned.
The miscreant arrested has been recognized as Rohit Shukla, resident of Raipurwa, Anwarganj, who used to keep up lockers within the financial institution. Police mentioned Rohit, had damaged open one other locker throughout restore work and stolen jewelry price Rs 1.8 crore, on September 10, 2021.
Jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore was stolen from a locker of Bank of Baroda’s Kidwai Nagar department. The incident got here to gentle on March 24 when the financial institution buyer visited the financial institution to verify his locker. Police had launched investigation after registering a case beneath part 380 (theft) at Naubasta police station on the grievance of Rama Awasthi, a resident of Basant Vihar Naubasta, a financial institution buyer.
Resident of Basant Vihar, Rama, spouse of Surya Kumar Awasthi, who retired from Ordnance Manufacturing facility, had a locker within the financial institution. Her daughter Shraddha Shukla too owns a locker in the identical department of the financial institution. Final Friday, following an RBI alert, she went to verify the locker.
When she tried to open the locker, she discovered that the locker was damaged and jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore was lacking . Police began the investigation by registering a report towards the department supervisor and different staff of the financial institution. Police scanned the CCTV footage of 18 months and questioned the financial institution officers. It got here to gentle that the lockers had been repaired thrice because the final time Rama had operated the one issued to her. For restore, the financial institution had employed the worker of a personal agency. “When the footage of Sept 8, 2021 and Sept 10, 2021 was scanned, actions of Rohit Shukla was discovered suspicious,” mentioned Commissioner of Police B P Jogdand.
The police have additionally recovered jewelry price Rs 1.80 crore from Rohit.
When the police began questioning him, Rohit confessed to the crime. “Police recovered the jewellery from his home in Raipurwa police station space. During additional interrogation, he additionally confessed to stealing jewelry price Rs 30 lakh from the locker of businessman Ajay Gupta, a resident of Barra, one other financial institution buyer,” mentioned Jogdand. The Police Commissioner has introduced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to the police workforce who labored out the case. He praised DCP South Salman Taj Patil and ADCP Ankita Sharma and really useful their title for the award “We’re writing to the upper officers of the financial institution for motion towards the administration. If financial institution staff are additionally discovered to have a task, motion will likely be taken towards them as effectively,” he mentioned.