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Police find new gang targeting western suburbs houses that urgently need domestic helps
A new gang of robbers seem to have taken on the western suburbs. They are pleasant, educated women who secure jobs as domestic helps and within a day clean out their employers' houses.
The police suspect one of the gang's latest victims were the Gulatis from Versova.
On August 23, when Jasbir Kaur was enquiring with the building watchman at her Andheri (West) housing society about a maid, a woman, who identified herself only as Harsha, overheard their conversation and said she was looking for a job.
Gulati told the police that she was impressed with Harsha, who is in her early 20s, as she seemed nice and well-mannered and immediately hired her without checking for references.
But the very next day, when Balwinder Gulati was at work at his electronics shop, Harsha slipped sleeping pills into Jasbir's tea and fled with cash and jewellery worth Rs18lakh.
The Gulatis have neither Harsha's photograph nor her address proof making the case difficult for the police to crack.
"This is why the police constantly stress on checking the past records of new servants. Even in this case, all that we are left with is a mobile phone number which may or may not be that of the accused," said senior inspector Sharad Borse of the Versova police station.
The police have found that this was not an isolated case.
At Kandivli police station alone two similar cases were registered in the last three months.
In July, a woman, who was hired by Deepak Dhar's wife as a domestic help without checking her antecedents or references, sneaked out diamond jewellery worth Rs6 lakh on the first day of her job. And this when all eight family members were in the house.
Dhar's wife told the police that she had hired the woman as she found her pleasing and well-mannered. She had told the Dhars that she was educated and urgently needed a job.
"We checked the profile of the accused in the Versova robbery with that in the Kandivli case. While the appearances of the women do not match, it cannot be ruled out that they might belong to the same gang as their modus operandi is same," said an officer from the Kandivli police station, requesting anonymity.
Police find new gang targeting western suburbs houses that urgently need domestic helps
A new gang of robbers seem to have taken on the western suburbs. They are pleasant, educated women who secure jobs as domestic helps and within a day clean out their employers' houses.
The police suspect one of the gang's latest victims were the Gulatis from Versova.
On August 23, when Jasbir Kaur was enquiring with the building watchman at her Andheri (West) housing society about a maid, a woman, who identified herself only as Harsha, overheard their conversation and said she was looking for a job.
Gulati told the police that she was impressed with Harsha, who is in her early 20s, as she seemed nice and well-mannered and immediately hired her without checking for references.
But the very next day, when Balwinder Gulati was at work at his electronics shop, Harsha slipped sleeping pills into Jasbir's tea and fled with cash and jewellery worth Rs18lakh.
The Gulatis have neither Harsha's photograph nor her address proof making the case difficult for the police to crack.
"This is why the police constantly stress on checking the past records of new servants. Even in this case, all that we are left with is a mobile phone number which may or may not be that of the accused," said senior inspector Sharad Borse of the Versova police station.
The police have found that this was not an isolated case.
At Kandivli police station alone two similar cases were registered in the last three months.
In July, a woman, who was hired by Deepak Dhar's wife as a domestic help without checking her antecedents or references, sneaked out diamond jewellery worth Rs6 lakh on the first day of her job. And this when all eight family members were in the house.
Dhar's wife told the police that she had hired the woman as she found her pleasing and well-mannered. She had told the Dhars that she was educated and urgently needed a job.
"We checked the profile of the accused in the Versova robbery with that in the Kandivli case. While the appearances of the women do not match, it cannot be ruled out that they might belong to the same gang as their modus operandi is same," said an officer from the Kandivli police station, requesting anonymity.
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