A 35-year-old woman’s plans to travel to Dubai to work as a domestic help did not work out after she stole jewellery worth Rs 8.36 lakh from a senior citizen’s house in Malad, mortgaged it with three different jewellers and fled the country with the money she got. Within 24 hours of the incident, the Bangur Nagar police tracked her down and made her return to Mumbai and confess to the crime.

Accused Anuradha Tambde worked as a domestic help in the complainant Sathi Balkrishna Menon’s, 71, house in Jankalyan Nagar of Goregaon West. Police sources said that Menon’s husband has been bedridden since February and she had employed Tambde to take care of him. On October 29 when Menon was cleaning her cupboard, she checked her ornaments and started to have doubts as to whether they were the actual ones.