Nurses suspect in jewellery theft case
The incident took place between July 7 and July 22, when the FIR was finally lodged at the Watgunge police station.
One of the victims, Lopamudra Bandyopadhyay, residing at Hastings Court, reported that several valuable items went missing from her flat while at least four nurses, working in shifts of 12 hours each, were attending to her elderly mother, who was recovering from hip surgery. According to the complainant, her mother fell and suffered rib injuries, for which she was hospitalised from June 28. The nurses were hired after her mother's release from hospital on July 7, said the victim.
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According to the FIR, the stolen items include three gold bangles weighing 45 gram, a 20-gram gold chain, a yellow sapphire ring, a black stone ring set in 18-karat gold, a broken gold ring with a coral stone, two pairs of gold earrings, and two gold-plated bangles.
"We noticed the jewellery missing on Monday night. These were valuable family heirlooms kept in my mother's room," said Bandyopadhyay. "We are examining CCTV footage from the building and interviewing all the nurses who worked at the residence during the specified period," said a senior officer.
The home care services unit of the hospital, which sent the nurses, has been contacted by police. "We take such allegations seriously and are cooperating fully with law enforcement," said an official.
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