A security guard was arrested for stealing a piece of jewellery worth `18 lakh from the Tanishq jewellery showroom in south Mumbai on Sunday.
According to the Marine Drive police, accused Raju Pandit (30) was working with the showroom for the last two years.
On Sunday, Pandit noticed a diamond necklace worth `18 lakh lying unattended after being removed from its display case to be shown to a customer.
He pocketed the necklace and went about with his duties. However, as the fear of being caught intensified, he left abruptly. Couple of salesman, who saw him leave, became suspicious and started chasing him. The finally managed to nab him, after which the police was informed.
“We frisked Pandit and found the necklace in his pocket. He
could offer no
satisfactory explanation to its presence on his person and ultimately confessed to have stolen it. He was subsequently placed under arrest,” said Zunjarrao Gharal, senior police inspector, Marine Drive police station.
Pandit was produced in a metropolitan magistrate’s court on Monday and has been remanded to police custody for two days, the police said.
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BMC to hold back consultant’s dues
AGE CORRESPONDENT
Mumbai, Sept. 24
The BMC on Monday decided to conduct an inquiry into the error by a consultant, while calculating the estimated certified emission reduction (CER) that would be earned with the closure of the Gorai dumping ground.
In Monday’s standing committee meeting, officials proposed buying CERs from the open market. A total of 4.26 lakh CERs, worth `15 crore would be required by the BMC to return to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The other decision was to hold back the payment of the consultant, who goofed-up on the calculation, till the report is submitted. Additional municipal commissioner Mohan Adtani said, “An inquiry will be conducted; the course of action will be decided later. In the meantime, the civic body will not release the consultant’s dues.” The BMC had appointed consultants IL&FS in 2008 to study the amount of emissions after the scientific closure of the Gorai dumping ground. Based on the calculations, the BMC was supposed to generate 2.74 lakh CERs.