Domestic help steals to pay brother's medical bills

MUMBAI: Mounting medical bills of his terminally-ill brother pushed a 30-year-old man to steal jewelry worth Rs 7 lakh from his employer over eight months. Rafique Shaikh was arrested and booked for robbery by the Nagpada police and was remanded to judicial custody at Arthur Road jail.
Police said Shaikh was a domestic help with Nagpada businessman, Eijaaz Sidiquee (46), for 10 years.In April, Siddiquee discovered some gold jewelry missing from his cupboard locker. “He complained on April 4. He said he didn’t suspect anyone and had faith in his servant as he had been with the family for several years,” said V Sawade, Senior police inspector of the Nagpada police station.
“Shaikh said his older brother had blood cancer and was receiving treatment at Tata Memorial hospital. The doctors had recently told him he was in his last stage and needed expensive medical intervention,” said Sawade. The police recovered all the stolen items and returned them to the owner.