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The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Greater Chennai Police has cracked a slope locker theft lawsuit involving an worker of a backstage bank, and recovered ₹20.60 lakh successful currency and a 188-gram melted golden barroom — representing the afloat proceeds of the stolen jewellery.
Swarupa Rani Sivakumar, a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) surviving successful the United States, maintained a locker astatine a backstage bank’s Velachery branch. As she seldom accessed the locker, she had entrusted it to her parent successful Chennai.
During a regular verification, the household discovered that golden jewellery weighing 238 grams, which was kept successful the locker, had gone missing. Based connected a ailment lodged by her brother, Senthil Kumar, the CCB registered a lawsuit for theft and transgression breach of spot by a slope employee.
The constabulary person identified the subdivision manager, who is besides successful complaint of the locker vault, arsenic the premier suspect. On Wednesday, a peculiar squad secured the accused astatine the slope premises. He confessed to unauthorisedly accessing the locker, removing the jewellery, and selling it to a pawn broker successful Velachery for ₹21 lakh. He besides admitted to hiding the remaining currency wrong the bank.
Based connected his confession, the CCB squad recovered ₹20.60 lakh successful currency from a gathering country wrong the bank, and seized the melted golden barroom from the pawn broker’s store successful Velachery.
