NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, AUG 17
Police on Monday arrested two sisters working as maid servants at the bungalow of Gujarat BJP MP Kirit Solanki in connection with the theft of jewellery worth Rs 9.9 lakh between June 30 and July 5, an official said.
“We had registered an FIR against Jaya Vaghela and her sister Rita Vaghela on August 15 on a complaint lodged by Solanki’s son Mehul. They have been arrested. The duo has not accepted their role in the alleged theft,” said Ranip police station inspector J B Khambhala.
He said the stolen items included jewellery made up of gold and diamonds.
The duo has been booked under sections 381 (Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master) and 114 (Abettor present when the offence is committed) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), he said.
The Ahmedabad-West MP lives with his family in Ranip area of the city.
As per the FIR, Mehul and his wife used to keep some jewellery in the digital locker kept inside their bedroom’s wardrobe.
Since its digital settings malfunctioned some time back, they have been using a key, it said.
Apart from the couple, the maids knew that the locker’s key is kept at a specific place in the wardrobe, the inspector said quoting the FIR.
On June 30, a technician repaired the digital setting and sealed the keyhole using screws so that the safe opens only using a password, which was set by Mehul, it said.
On July 5, Mehul’s wife informed him that jewellery worth Rs 9.9 lakh had gone missing from the safe.
The FIR said someone had manually opened the safe using the key after removing the screws on the seal.
Mehul suspected the role of Vaghelas since they knew about the key and have access to the bedroom, it said.
