A 66-year-old resident of Chunabhatti learnt a harsh lesson, when a maid that she hired without a background check looted her house of goods worth Rs 8 lakh and decamped. The theft happened on April 2, when the complainant Asha Oman had gone for a bath around 10.30 am. The other members of the family had all gone to work. When she emerged from the bathroom, she realised that the house had been looted. According to the police officials, the accused has been identified as Jaya, and she was hired four days before the theft.

Speaking to MiD DAY Senior Police Inspector T R Choudary from Chunnabhatti police station said, “The complainant failed to take detailed information about the accused while hiring her. We don’t even know her full name. We have made a sketch of the accused who is assumed to be aged around 30-32 years and we have passed it on to other police stations in order to locate her.”