Kolkata, Feb. 26 -- The police on Thursday arrested an employee of a jewellery showroom in north east Kolkata's Kankurgachi in connection with the theft of Rs 98 lakh worth of gold ornaments.
The accused Rajeev Ramanan, who was working as the deputy sales manager at the Kankurgachi outlet of the jewellery showroom, was arrested following a complaint lodged by the company.
A senior police official said the theft was detected during a routine stock verification. Subsequently, the billing records were scrutinised along with stock registers and transaction data. It was found that the invoices were manipulated and the ornaments wereremoved without authorisation from the store's stock. The accused had access to the inventory handling and billin...