Police have arrested a woman from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly stealing 910 grams of jewellery from a house in Ulhasnagar of Maharashtra's Thane district, where she had started working as a maid just a few days before it, an official said on Saturday.

The accused woman, identified as Narmada alias Asha Shoaib Khan, 35, was arrested on Thursday and 247.840 grams of the stolen valuables were recovered from her, he said.