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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Domestic help, husband arrested for robbery
CHENNAI: The police on Wednesday detained the domestic maid, who allegedly decamped with more than 150 sovereigns of gold jewellery from her employee’s house in West Mambalam recently.Sources said Geetha and her husband Ramesh were picked up from their new house at Mettupalayam near Ashok Nagar.She had moved into the house, twoand- a-half km away from her old residence, three months ago.
The police spread their net for her after printing press owner Ramesh and his wife Lata filed a complaint on Monday, alleging that 152 sovereigns of gold jewellery, worth about Rs 16 lakh, were missing from their house.Their domestic help, Geetha, became the prime suspect as she absconded soon after the theft was detected. Efforts to contact her over her mobile phone also failed.The police probed into her cell phone records and questioned her close associates and traced her to her new house.“Geetha planned the entire robbery,” the sources said. “She removed the pieces of jewellery not in a single day but over a period of time. The couple discovered the theft only when she emptied the entire shelf.” During enquiry, the police learnt that the maid had been booked for a similar offence earlier. In 2003, Geetha was arrested for allegedly stealing Rs 6 lakh worth jewellery from a previous employer’s house, but was acquitted.“This is her modus operandi.
She joins as a maid, wins the trust of her employers and then decamps with the loot,” the sources said.The police have recovered 50 per cent of the stolen items. They are also investigating whether Geetha and her husband are the notorious scooter couple, who indulge in chain snatching in different parts of the city.
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