Woman steals Rs 30 lakh from office in Bandra and runs away with lover

A 25yearold accountant with a diamond firm at BandraKurla Complex allegedly stole Rs 30 lakh from her office locker The police is on a lookout for her as she fled with her boyfriend after the crime The accused identified as Pooja Daral 25 had left Rs 16 lakh with a friend of hers for safekeeping This friend Abhishek Khemkar 27 was arrested from his Mankhurd home last WednesdayAlso ReadMumbai Crime 54yearold thief arrested after three decades in Mira RoadThe theft came to light recently when another employee of the same firm also from the accounts department stumbled upon a discrepancy in the cash On checking the CCTV footage from cameras in the office she found the accused pinching the cash from the office safe stated an officer from the BandraKurla Complex police stationAlso ReadDomestic help accused in Delhi robbery worth Rs 15 lakh nabbed from BangaloreThe employee Shah found Pooja Daral entering the locker room and stealing the cash Khemkarhelped her by keeping the booty with him for which she paid him some money said a police officer The police said that Abhishek Khemkar informed them that the accused bought two cars She took some cash along and fled with her boyfriend to her village in the Konkan added the officerAccording to the Times of India in a police complaint lodged by an official of Chintan Gems the diamond firm stated We got suspicious about Daral when she stopped coming to the office Shah checked the locker and also checked the books of accounts and found discrepancies there She then checked the CCTV in the locker room and found Daral entering the room and removing cash and leaving the officeThe police got details about the accused and arrested her friend Khemkar who confessed that he knew that Daral had stolen the money said the officer He said that she wanted to start her own business and marry the man she loved He told us that she fled to Sindhudurg with a part of the booty said the officerAlso ReadMan wanted for Rs 25 lakh robbery held after gunfight with policeTop news stories of the daySex toys worth Rs 8 crore confiscated in two years in MumbaiIn the worlds second populous nation the obsession with sex toys shouldnt come as a surprise What however does is the massive quantity of it being illegally brought into the country The toys are regularly detained by the Customs Department A Right To Information query filed by activist Prithviraj Maske revealed that from 2017 to January 2019 the Airport Special Courier Cell of the Mumbai Customs Department had seized sex toys worth Rs 8 crore Read full storyMurder Mystery Solved 3D face helps cops crack caseThe forensic department of the KEM Hospital has helped the Navghar police crack a twomonthold murder case with the help of facial reconstruction and 3D superimposition technology which they used to put a face on the victims severely fractured skull Yogesh Rane a worker at a tea stall in Mulund had in March smashed the face of his colleague Vijay Kishor and burnt his upper body for laughing at him at the gym He was caught after he attempted to kill another coworker when the latter started asking him questions about Kishors sudden disappearance Read full storyMumbai Corporators oppose parking fines say additionl infra requiredThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations BMC decision to tackle the citys illegal parking menace has fallen flat with corporators opposing the move of charging hefty fines without providing the required infrastructure or additional parking space to citizens Not only members of the ruling coalition even the Opposition opposed the move at the civic bodys general body meeting on Monday Read full storyMumbais top cop pedals to 1500 km cycling historyIndian Police Service IPS Krishna Prakash special inspector general of police IGP administration Maharashtra is back home in Mumbai after creating cycling history The tough cop has finished a stupendous fourth in the mens open category of the Race Across West RAW in USA The race which requires cycling for approximately 1500 km across four American states started on June 11 and ended on June 14 Read full storyBandra court asks police to probe case of school that blamed child for bad touchThe Bandra Court has directed the Santacruz police to register an offence against a reputed school in Vile Parle after a petitioner parent alleged mental harassment of her child by it Last year the eightyearold child was reprimanded for inappropriately touching his classmates by the school The parents later complained that the way the school treated the child thereon was harassment Read full storyCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates