New Delhi: A private safety officer (PSO) of a businessman was arrested for allegedly robbing money and jewelry value Rs 1.25 crore from his employer’s home in south Delhi’s Higher Kailash space, police mentioned on Saturday.
Vikas Kumar’s (38) employer had gone overseas on a trip when he hatched a plan to hold out the theft, they mentioned.
He jumped into the businessman’s home from the terrace and decamped with the gold jewelry and money, they mentioned.
The matter got here to fore when the complainant returned dwelling and located the locker damaged. Round Rs 70 lakhs money and gold jewelry value Rs 55 lakhs had been lacking from the secure, Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Ankit Chauhan mentioned.
A case below related sections of theft was registered at Higher Kailash Police Station and groups had been fashioned to nab the robber, the police mentioned.
“After analysing the CCTV footage of areas close by, it was discovered that at round 2 am on September 26, an individual got here in a automobile and entered the home,” Chauhan mentioned.
The footages had been proven to the complainant who recognized him as his PSO Vikas Kumar, a local of Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat. The businessman had employed the accused three months in the past, he mentioned.
Kumar was arrested on Thursday and the stolen money and jewelry was recovered from his home in Baghpat. The automobile used within the fee of crime was additionally discovered there, the DCP mentioned.
One other police officer mentioned Kumar revealed that he deliberate the theft to reside a lavish life and on the night time of the incident he used a rope to climb on the terrace of the home. He entered inside by breaking the locks.
Kumar additionally tampered with the CCTV cameras earlier than coming into the home however he was captured on cameras put in within the close by lanes, the officer mentioned.
