Nilesh Nikam gets cash prize of Rs 15K and a medal for honestly depositing jewellery, gold coins, biscuits, and cash amounting to lakhs
Nilesh Nikam, the beat marshal from Malad police station
Malad police rewarded a beat marshal, Nilesh Nikam, with a cash prize of Rs 15,000 and a medal for honestly depositing jewellery, gold coins and biscuits, and cash amounting to lakhs of rupees at the station. Police sources said that Nikam, during his patrol, found a tiffin bag on a footpath near N L college on S V Road October 2. He searched it and found the valuable items and Rs 98,721 in cash, which he deposited at Malad police station.
Bhageshwar Chowdhary, the help, was drunk and accidentally left his bag on the footpath
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To trace the owner, officers shared the information with other police stations and learnt that a theft case was reported to the Borivli police on October 2. The complaint stated that a domestic help stole gold and cash worth over Rs 1 crore from the Borivli West house of Kokila Kothari, 54. Borivli Sub Inspector Yogesh Patil, with his team, nabbed the accused, Bhageshwar Chowdhary alias Raju Ramchandra Kamath alias Bhagwanlal, on October 3 from near Poisar bus depot in Borivli West.
During interrogation, he confessed to the crime and revealed that his relative Jogi Kamath, 29, and Chandrakumar Kamath, 20, helped him. They robbed Kotharis on October 2, when Kokila and her husband Anil Kothari, 56, were in Pune. Kokila told police that on October 2, their son and daughter left for work, leaving Chowdhary alone at home. In the evening, their son informed them about the theft and filed a complaint. Borivli police immediately sent search parties and nabbed Chowdhary.
The bag Nikam found on a footpath near N L college on S V Road October 2
Police recovered another bag from Jogi and Chandrakumar, which had jewellery worth about Rs 20 lakh. Chowdhary told police that he was drunk and had accidentally left his bag on the footpath. They had planned to flee to their native village in Bihar and sell the jewellery, police said. “Chowdhary also disclosed that the tools to break open the safe in the Kothari household were arranged by his two accomplices,” said an officer from Borivali police station. The Kotharis own a jewellery shop at Zaveri Bazaar in south Mumbai. Kokila said she had hired Chowdhary on September 27 and within a couple of days he had won over the trust of the family.
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