Family in Ayodhya; guard and wife steal 2kg gold, Rs 12 lakhs

BENGALURU: A security guard and his wife, a domestic help, are on the run after allegedly stealing more than 2kg gold ornaments and Rs 12 lakh cash from their employer’s house at Sunshine Layout, TC Palya, east Bengaluru. The employer, a builder-cum-director of an insurance company, had gone to Ayodhya with his family when the couple from Nepal and associates made away with the booty.The incident came to light after the employer’s driver noticed the front door ajar and the house ransacked in the early hours of Feb 23.
In his police complaint, Prasada Rao Kamineni, 46, identified the prime suspects as Kamal and Deeksha, both aged between 23 and 25 years. A senior police officer said the accused couple is suspected to be heading towards Nepal. Kamineni owns a multi-storey building on III Cross in Sunshine Layout. The accused couple stayed in the basement — Kamal was the building’s security guard, while Deeksha was working in Kamineni’s house for one-and-a-half years. Kamineni had rented out the first, second and third floors. His family lived in a duplex flat on the fourth and fifth floors.
On Feb 21, Kamineni and family locked the house around 8am and left for Ayodhya on a pilgrimage. Kamineni asked his car driver Ravi Kumar to keep watch and gave him a set of keys for the main metal door.
Two days later, Kamineni received a call from Kumar, saying the front door was ajar. Kamineni asked him to check inside the house and Kumar said the doors of a few rooms were opened and clothes and other valuables were lying scattered on the floor. Kumar said the Nepali couple was missing since morning.
“The couple had brought seven to eight persons to the house, images of whom have been captured on CCTV,” Kamineni told TOI. “The couple threw a party for Ravi Kumar on February 22. When he was drunk, they took the keys of the metal door from him and opened it. They left the key with Kumar after the burglary,” Kamineni said.