Overview
- In Bengaluru’s Sadashivanagar, a 19-year-old domestic help and her husband were arrested on charges of stealing jewellery and luxury watches worth about ₹1.37 crore, with police recovering 787.66 g of gold, 291.08 g of silver and seven watches.
- Both accused in the Sadashivanagar case were produced in court and remanded to judicial custody after investigators traced the valuables to their residence.
- Vidyaranyapura police arrested four people for a ₹1.03 crore theft, alleging a driver and a domestic help provided a key for the break-in; recoveries include about 550 g of gold, 4 kg of silver, ₹24 lakh in cash and a two-wheeler.
- Oshiwara police in Mumbai arrested a 40-year-old habitual burglar from Virar in a Lokhandwala bungalow case, recovering roughly ₹1.26 crore, with the total loss later assessed at about ₹1.37 crore and links to more than 10 cases under probe.
- Investigations cite travel windows around late December as the opportunity for the crimes, and authorities urge police verification of staff, limiting key access, installing CCTV and storing high-value jewellery in bank lockers.