The entire stolen property was recovered

Mumbai: A 26-year-old domestic help was recently arrested from the city airport for allegedly stealing 120-year-old British royal cypher coins and gold jewellery worth Rs 46.8 lakh from the Amboli home of a share trader, where he worked for a decade.The accused, Rahul Kumar Shafi, a resident of Madhubani in Bihar, was waiting to take a flight to Patna when he was caught. The entire stolen property was recovered. Shafi is currently lodged in jail.According to Amboli police, the elderly mother of his employer, Aditya Nirmal Jhunjhunwala, saw a gold bangle fall out of Shafi’s pocket on July 20. “Her suspicions rose after Shafi claimed he found it lying in the balcony and that he was about to hand it over to the employer. She immediately checked the cupboard and found the majority of the gold ornaments missing. She alerted her son,” said a police officer.The next day, Shafi went missing, following which a police complaint was filed.A team led by DCP Purushottam Karad, which included ACP D Awari, senior inspector Pravin Patil and SI (detection officer) Pradeep Funde, found that Shafi had spent the night roaming the streets and was last traced to the city airport the next evening, from where he was then arrested.