Accused claims false complaint in suicide note, widow surrenders ornaments a week later
The case, which had its share of twists and turns, drew to a close after the wife of the deceased accused surrendered the stolen articles.
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In one of the notes, the deceased alleged that the MNC executive had filed a false complaint and cheated him. A theft case of jewellery worth Rs 2.5 crore from the residence of a senior executive of a multinational company (MNC), followed by the suicide of one of the suspects, was cracked by Bengaluru Police on Monday.
The case, which had its share of twists and turns, drew to a close after the wife of the deceased accused surrendered the stolen articles.
The police had launched an investigation on August 17, after the executive filed a complaint at the Pulakeshinagar police station suspecting four house helps of stealing 12 articles worth Rs 2.5 crore. The complainant, who works as the vice-president of an MNCs, alleged that she had last seen the jewellery in May. Notices were served to the four employees, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Bheemshankar S Guled.
The first twist in the case came four days later, on August 21, when the complainant’s driver, Jimon Varghese, who was among the suspects, died by suicide. Police found seven pages of death notes written by Varghese in Malayalam. “One of the letters was for his wife, one for his family members, one to the police and one in general. The separate letters had two or four sentences on each page,” the DCP said.
In one of the notes, Varghese alleged that the MNC executive had filed a false complaint. He wrote that he felt humiliated during the police inquiry and blamed the executive for his death, the officer said.
“When we called the family of the driver and asked them to file a complaint, they said that they wanted to first think about it. But once a name is mentioned in a suicide case, police have to file a suo motu case based on the death note,” Guled said.
Two teams were formed to investigate the theft complaint; one of the teams was sent to Kerala. On August 30, officers at Pulakeshinagar police station were in for a surprise when the wife of the driver arrived there and surrendered not 12 but 38 articles, along with foreign currency, that were stolen from the executive’s residence.
“Police have found fingerprints of the deceased on the boxes of jewellery returned,” the DCP said, adding that the police had monitored his family members to prevent them from selling them off.
“The complainant used to travel frequently and had foreign currency. We have to recover two more valuable ornaments, which he (the driver) had pledged to a bank,” he said, adding that the value of property recovered was currently Rs 1.5 crore. The other two articles pledged to the bank are worth Rs 1 crore and will be recovered soon, Guled said.
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