Lucknow, Feb. 19 -- A passenger arriving in Lucknow from Odisha has accused airline staff of theft after his wristwatch allegedly went missing from his checked-in baggage. The incident occurred on February 15, when Saksham Pathak travelled from Jharsuguda to Lucknow via Delhi on an IndiGo flight (6E-6488). The flight departed Jharsuguda at 5:45 pm and landed at Lucknow's Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport around 9:45 pm. According to Pathak, he had checked in two bags after they were sealed at the baggage counter. However, upon arrival in Lucknow, he found the seal of one bag broken. A Titan Ceramic Fusion watch, valued at approximately Rs.30,000, was missing from the bag. He immediately lodged a complaint at the airline's airport counter and later emailed the airline. In response, IndiGo expressed regret over the incident, he said. Pathak has alleged that valuables in passengers' luggage are identified during scanning and later targeted. He has demanded that airport authorities provide CCTV footage to verify what happened to his baggage during transit. He is scheduled to return to Jharsuguda on February 19. Thieves made off with an iron gate, a water tank and even taps from a cremation ground in Mawai Kala village under Rahimabad police station limits late on Tuesday night. Inspector Arun Kumar Trigunayak of Rahimabad Police Station confirmed that a complaint has been received and an investigation is underway. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Uttar Pradesh, arrested Jaideep Mitra, a former branch manager of Punjab & Sind Bank, Golghar branch in Gorakhpur, in connection with an alleged embezzlement of Rs.34.78 lakh, EOW officials said in a press note shared with media on Wednesday. Mitra, a Gorakhpur resident, was apprehended from Varanasi on Wednesday morning. He had been absconding in a case registered at Cantt police station, Gorakhpur, under IPC sections 409, 419, 420, 467, 468 and 120B. According to the EOW, Mitra, along with the then cashier-clerk and other bank officials, allegedly opened fictitious accounts in the names of their relatives and siphoned off Rs.34,78,420 by transferring money into those accounts. The case, initially investigated at the district level after being registered in 1999, was later transferred to the EOW following a government order dated July 10, 2000. During the investigation, nine accused were found culpable. Efforts to arrest the remaining two accused were ongoing, leading to Mitra's arrest. Further legal proceedings are underway....