Cook held for stealing Rs 5 lakh from house

Chandigarh, August 19

A cook has been arrested by the Chandigarh Police for allegedly stealing Rs 5 lakh from a house in Sector 16.

According to the police, the complainant, Ashwani Kumar Chopra, reported that he had gone to Delhi on August 17 and when he returned after a day, he found the window grills of his bedroom broken. Someone had entered the house and stolen the cash lying in a drawer of a cupboard.

The police questioned several suspects, including servants and helpers, working in the house. The police said one of the suspects, Raju Kumar Shah, a native of Bihar, who was working as a cook in the house of the complainant’s son in Sector 16 for the past 11 years, was also questioned.

Raju, a frequent visitor to the complainant’s house, confessed to the crime. The police also recovered the stolen cash from him.

A case under Sections 457 (lurking house trespass or house-breaking by night), 380 (theft in a dwelling house), 381 (theft by a clerk or a servant of a property in possession of the master) and 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) of the IPC has been registered against the accused at the Sector 17 police station. The accused was arrested in the case. — TNS