2 held for Rs 33 lakh diamond heist

KOLKATA: The detective department arrested two persons on Friday in connection with a jewellery heist earlier this month.
Diamond-studded ornaments worth Rs 33 lakh were stolen from a shop on Hariram Goenka Street in Posta. The owner, Ajay Palsani, filed an FIR naming one of his employees Sandeep Rai as a suspect. He said that Sandeep, who is from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, had not reported for work since the day he questioned him about the theft.Police are still looking for Sandeep but they did manage to track down two persons - Ganesh Jain and Raju Singh - who had allegedly bought some of the stolen goods. Investigators recovered 300 grams of stolen ornaments from duo. .
In a similar case, a shop employee and an accomplice have been arrested for the theft of Rs 16 lakh from an electronic goods shop at Phoolbagan.
On January 27 the shop owner lodged a complaint with police that burglars had broken in and stolen the money. Police began by questioning the employees. One of them, Sandip Dey, broke down and confessed that he kept an aide, Kanai Pramanik, in the shop when he locked up for the night. At night Kanai stole the money and threw it out to Dey from the toilet window. The next morning, when the burglary was spotted, Sanjib took advantage of the chaos to smuggle Kanai out.