Overview
- In Bengaluru, domestic worker Pooja Bista confessed on September 6 to stealing jewellery from a Jayanagar home, with police recovering 67 grams of gold and 300 grams of silver after raids.
- Investigators said Bista sold part of the gold at a Wilson Garden shop, and she was produced in court on September 6 and remanded to judicial custody.
- In Mumbai’s Goregaon case, Dindoshi police arrested a woman who reported a theft on August 28, later determining she staged a break-in and kept some ornaments with a third party; she was sent to judicial custody on September 8.
- Police in Mumbai reported recovering items sold to a jeweller and said the accused planned to elope with a boyfriend, while another account from investigators said she transferred proceeds to a social media contact.
- Across both cases, detectives used CCTV reviews, call-data records and interrogations to secure confessions and partial recoveries, with inquiries continuing into pawn and sale channels and any collaborators.