Even on festive days like Diwali, a confectionery shop owner became suspicious as the estimated amount was not collected every day. He installed CCTV cameras in the shop and through it, the path of a servant to become a millionaire came to the fore. The shop owner has alleged that the Jharkhand servant had laundered around Rs 44 lakh in three years by collecting a small amount of money from the shop.
Sapan Papadwala & General Stores in Bhuleshwar is a sweet and dried fruit shop. Its owner brought Rit Prasad Verma from Jharkhand to Mumbai a few years back. As he has a knack for making sweets, Verma won the hearts of not only the owner but also the customers. Seeing his work, the owner promoted him to the shop and gave him the responsibility of cash counter. While managing the sweets and dried fruit department on the first floor, Verma used to take money from customers.
However, CCTV footage showed him putting it in his own pocket instead of throwing it at the counter. As soon as the owner hesitated about this, Verma apologized to the owner. He disappeared the next day, thinking it was all over. The owner lodged a complaint at the Lokmanya Tilak Marg Police Station on suspicion of being switched off.
Police have registered a case of theft and launched an investigation. Police had been on the trail for several days. When the police found out that he had come to Mumbai from Jharkhand, they caught him smiling. When police checked his bank account details, they found more than Rs 30 lakh in it.