Gold worth Rs 3L missing from woman's bank locker

A 57-year-old woman allegedly lost her gold ornaments worth Rs 2,65,000 kept in the bank locker of a Matunga branch. The woman in her complaint has alleged that while most of the gold ornaments were intact inside the locker but she found some of them missing. The Matunga police have registered a case of theft in this regard.

According to police, Auxilia Bhaskaran, 57, a resident of Tulsi Pride in Chembur alleged that she found her bank locker of the State Bank of India open and her gold jewellery was missing. The police are checking CCTV camera footages to ascertain the statement of the complainant, and to check whether the ornaments were stolen by an employee of the bank.

"The CCTV cameras are not installed inside the locker section of the bank and the victim had checked the locker last year to check her belongings," said a Matunga police officer.

N Ambika, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 4, said, "We have registered a case under section 380(theft) of the Indian Penal Code against an unknown person. The woman has also claimed that most of the gold ornaments are intact inside the locker and we are probing as to how the ornaments went missing."