Nurse held for drugging colleague, stealing gold chain

A authorities infirmary caregiver has been arrested for allegedly mixing sleeping pills successful crockery and stealing six sovereigns of a golden concatenation from a workfellow successful Saidapet.

Police said Sunatha, 31, a nonmigratory of Adambakkam is moving arsenic a caregiver astatine the Government Hospital for Children, Egmore. Another nurse, Nancy Nisha, is besides employed astatine the aforesaid hospital, and the 2 were friends. On October 10, Sunatha was connected work astatine the hospital, she was nether intelligence accent owed to household circumstances.

Taking vantage of this, Nisha forcibly took her to her location successful Saidapet. After immoderate time, Sunatha consumed mushroom crockery fixed by Nisha. Soon aft drinking the soup, Sunatha fell unconscious, and woke up astir 7 pm.

Nisha past told her that she had to permission urgently and dropped Sunatha connected a two-wheeler astatine Saidapet railway station. When Sunatha returned home, she realised that the golden concatenation weighing astir six sovereigns that she had been wearing astir her cervix was missing.

Based connected a ailment lodged by Sunatha astatine the Saidapet Police Station Crime Wing, the constabulary registered a lawsuit and began an investigation. The probe revealed that the accused Nancy Nisha had mixed sleeping pills successful the mushroom crockery fixed to Sunatha and stolen her golden chain.

Following this, the constabulary arrested Nancy Nisha, 37, a nonmigratory of Toddhunter Nagar, Tamil Nadu Housing Board quarters, Saidapet successful transportation with the case. Further probe revealed that Nisha had melted the stolen golden concatenation and pledged it astatine a pawn store successful Vyasarpadi. About 48 grams of golden was recovered from the pawn shop.

Police enquiry besides revealed that Nancy Nisha had committed a akin offence earlier. On November 15, she allegedly mixed sleeping pills successful foodstuff and gave it to Thangammal, a caregiver moving astatine the Government Hospital, Egmore. After Thangammal became unconscious, Nisha pretended to instrumentality her location safely, brought her successful an autorickshaw with her lying connected her lap, and allegedly stole Thangammal’s concatenation weighing astir 4¾ sovereigns during the journey. In that case, Nancy Nisha was arrested by Saidapet constabulary and had travel retired connected bail past week.