Over smartness
leads to the arrest of a thief
By Dinesh Kamath
NAVI MUMBAI: A domestic help on the run after looting cash and
jewellery worth Rs 25 lakh from his employers in Navi Mumbai's Vashi sent a
friend request to his employers on Facebook. This led to his arrest.
Just
four months earlier, Suvabrata Sanyal, a domestic help of a retired couple
(marine engineer Deepak Raut, 69, and his wife Amita, 65) ran away with items
worth Rs 25 lakhs and was in hiding till recently.
Suvabrata
had landed the job through a placement agency and the Rauts took him in without
a background check. The Mumbai family had agreed to pay Suvabrata Rs 12,000 a
month because he was a trained cook. One day, he made some kheer, Bengali
style. Raut family loved it but soon became unconscious. When they returned to
consciousness, their cash and jewellery were gone.
He
was tracked and nabbed by the police in Kolkata by a Facebook friend request
that he had sent his employers. He had sent the Facebook friend request because
he wanted to check whether his employers had lodged a complaint against him or
whether the police was on a look out for him. Moreover, to ensure that his
employers recognize him properly, he changed the display picture every 10
minutes. Also, he thought nobody could touch him and so he contacted his former
employers to taunt them since they had ill-treated him when he was employed
with them. He was caught when the couple reported the police of the incident.
The
mobile phone and Facebook trail led the cops to an apartment building near
Behala Chowrasta, where Suvabrata lives in a rented, one-bedroom flat with his
mother, elder sister and younger brother.
On
July 30, just as Suvabrata sat for lunch, the doorbell rang. He answered it to
find three police officers at the door. No money or jewellery was found in the
house.
Suvabrata
was produced in Alipore court and taken to Mumbai on transit remand. He is now
in police custody.
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