PUNE: A former employee of the Badhai Sweets near ABC Farms chowk on Salunke Vihar Road was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of stealing Rs1.5 lakh and a digital video recorder (DVR) worth Rs2,000 from the sweet mart on the night intervening July 24 and 25.
The suspect, Vardaram Punaji Chaudhary (48) of Kondhwa, was produced before a magisterial court in Pune Cantonment and was remanded in police custody till July 31.
“Since the DRV (used for storing CCTV footage) was also stolen, we suspected that someone familiar with the inside of the shop must have committed the theft. The suspect, knowing the location of the DVR, would’ve likely stolen it to destroy the evidence,” inspector Chetan More from the Kondhwa police told TOI.
“We gathered information about all the past and present employees of the shop and examined their cellphone data records and bank details. The breakthrough came when we found that Rs95,000 were transferred from Chaudhary’s bank account here to another bank account in Rajasthan,” More said.
