India, June 1 -- The Dadar metropolitan magistrate court found a woman guilty of stealing jewellery from the house where she worked as a domestic help, and sentenced her to a year in prison. The case was registered in 2017, and on May 26 the court passed the order once enough evidence tied the crime to the woman.

In August 2017, a couple in Parel found 171 grams of gold and 2.2 carats of diamond jewellery missing from their house, and registered a complaint against their 33-year-old domestic help, accusing her of theft.

After investigating the matter, police recovered some of the gold from an acquaintance of the accused and found the rest with two jewellers to whom it had been allegedly pawned. Upon questioning, the three revealed that ...