Ayah hatched robbery plan at Kasba flat
KOLKATA: The ayah, who was recruited to look after the month-old grandchild of the landlady, masterminded the robbery at the Kasba house on February 11. Following interrogation of the ayah, Shukla Mondal, police rounded up her fiance Bapi Mondal and his friend Amalesh Jha with charges of robbery.
According to police sources, Shukla originally hails from Mathurapur. Some years ago, she left her husband and started staying with Bapi – who ditched his wife as well – at Sonarpur. Strewn by extreme financial crunch, the couple started looking for some easy money. Meanwhile, Shukla started working as an ayah and Tapasi Banerjee hired her through an agency to look after her daughter Indrani’s child.
After working for few days, Shukla noticed that Tapasi and her daughter could be an easy prey. She even used to overhear the mother-daughter conversations and concluded her employers stashed ornaments in their house. She informed Bapi about the possibility of laying hands on the ornaments and a plot was hatched consequently. Bapi took into confidence his three friends, one of them was Amalesh Jha, a resident of Kalikapur and a cabdriver by profession.
On February 11 night, the gang of four boarded Amalesh’s cab and went to Tapasi’s Kasba Rathtala residence. While two stood guard outside, the rest stormed into the first-floor room where Tapasi stayed alone. Her daughter Indrani was out to a neighbour’s house that time. Police said they robbed some silver ornaments and utensils, but were looking for more precious ornaments. When they could not get anything worthwhile, they threatened Tapasi and finally snatched her gold bangle before leaving.
Suspicion fell on Shukla during investigation as the robbers tied and gagged Tapasi but left Shukla free. Initially, she tried to reason that robbers spared her since the baby was on her lap. But she broke down after prolonged interrogation and Bapi’s name finally cropped up.
But the cops failed to nab Bapi as he fled from his house and Shukla did not disclose his whereabouts. Police finally managed to get hold of him tracking his mobile tower location. “We have managed to recover major portion of the booty. We are now looking for the two other accused,” said Damayanti Sen, joint CP ( crime).
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