E-commerce firm staffer held for theft of Rs.1.33-cr cash
MUMBAi, Jan. 20 -- A 25-year-old employee of an e-commerce firm in Dadar was arrested on Monday for allegedly masterminding the theft of Rs.1.33-crore cash from his employer's Prabhadevi office by hiring an outsider to execute the crime. Police have so far recovered Rs.1.13 crore of the stolen amount.
The case was registered based on a complaint lodged by Sagar Dubey, 27, a Dadar resident who co-founded the e-commerce company in 2018 along with Harshil Sutare and Gautam Chauhan. The firm deals in electronics, particularly mobile phones, through online and offline sales.
According to the police, the company employs five workers and routinely stores cash from sales at its Prabhadevi office. Around Rs.1.33 crore, collected since December 16, was kept in an office cupboard. On Saturday morning, when the employees reached the office, they found the biometric lock at the office entrance damaged. Dubey was informed and, upon inspection, they discovered that Rs.1.33 crore had been stolen from one section of the cupboard.
"CCTV footage showed that the intruder moved around confidently, indicating familiarity with the premises," said Dnyaneshwar Awari, senior police inspector at Dadar police station. "The biometric lock was disabled by cutting off its power supply, after which the accused used a duplicate key to enter the office and flee with the cash."
Assistant police inspector Ramkrishna Sagade said the investigation revealed that the person who entered the office was being guided via a WhatsApp video call. "The intruder had duplicate keys to another door and the cupboard and was instructed step by step," he said. Based on these findings, police concluded that the theft was an inside job. All staff members were questioned, leading to the arrest of Roshan Shivkumar Jaiswar, a resident of Santacruz.
Deputy commissioner of police Mahendra Pandit said Jaiswar had brought Ravi Kumar Jha from in Uttar Pradesh to carry out the theft....
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