A 19-year-old man was arrested for allegedly burgling houses where he worked as a domestic help in Central Delhi's Patel Nagar, police said on Monday.
Vinod Kumar Arya, a resident of Dashghara village in Inderpuri, was arrested after one of the house owners complained to police on October 3 about burglary at her home.
The owner said gold ornaments, wrist-watches, mobile phone and Rs 40,000 were looted from the house when her family members were sleeping, police said.
The footage from a CCTV camera installed at the house showed a person committing the burglary and he was arrested Saturday morning from Dashghara village, said Mandeep Singh Randhawa, deputy commissioner of police (Central Delhi).
Interrogation revealed that the accused had committed several incidents of house theft and burglary in Patel Nagar. He used seek employment as a servant and left it after committing theft, the DCP said.
Gold ornaments, one wrist watch, one mobile phone and a camera has been recovered from him.
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