Interstate co-ordination led to arrest of domestic help: Police

Coimbatore: Three days after arresting him from Patna for stealing ornaments worth Rs 2.07crore from a businessman’s house at Race Course here,

the city police lodged N Bikash

, a native of Makdiha village in Giridih district in Jharkhand,

in the Coimbatore Central Prison on Saturday

.

The 20-year-old man was working as a domestic help at the house of Silesh Ethiraj, owner of Sri Ranga Textiles in Singanallur. Ethiraj, who was out of station, returned home last Tuesday to find the help missing along with gold and diamond jewellery kept in a cupboard. His mobile phone was switched off.

The Race Course police registered a case against Bikash and formed three special teams to nab him. Sniffer dog Vilma ran from the crime scene towards the Coimbatore Railway Junction. CCTV footage collected from the station showed him enter coach S 12 of the Ernakulam – Patna Express train on Monday around 9.35pm. Deputy commissioner of police L Balaji Saravanan contacted Bankura district SP N Koteswara Rao over phone and sent photos of Bikash. Police also alerted the railway protection force.

A team of RPF personnel in civilian clothes traced Bikash and nabbed him from the train. A police team from the city arrested him on Tuesday and recovered the stolen ornaments. He was taken to Coimbatore on Friday evening.

Police sources said that Bikash was working as a domestic help for five years. “Ethiraj had given Bikash Rs 50,000 and five sovereigns of gold ornaments on the occasion of his elder sister’s marriage a few months ago. Some of his friends in Jharkhand had prompted him to rob the businessman,” an officer said.