The police arrested three women, who used to work as maids in a house in Dhaka鈥檚 Eskaton area, and recovered 31.04 bhoris of gold ornaments that were stolen from the house, from their possessions.
The three arrested are Tanjina Akter Faria, Kohinur Begum and Nazma Akter Laiju.
Rokhsana Mazumder on Tuesday, filed a case with Ramna model police station against her three maids over the theft of 44 bhoris of gold ornaments and five diamond rings worth about Tk 52 lakhs from her Eskaton Garden house.
A team of police later managed to arrest Faria and Kohinur on Thursday and Laiju on Friday, deputy commissioner of police鈥檚 Ramna zone Md Sarwar Jahan told reporters at a press briefing at DMP media centre on Saturday.
Sarwar Jahan said that Faria gave confessional statement at the court, saying that she along with the other two maids stole the ornaments from the house.
Kohinur, who was taken on two-day remand, gave information about eight bhoris of gold. Later, police recovered the gold from the servant鈥檚 bedroom in the house of the victim.
鈥榃e also recovered 16.15 bhoris of gold ornaments from Laiju鈥檚 home. Following information given by her, we recovered 2.12 bhoris of gold from Ananna Jewellers and 3.08 bhori from Nusrat Jewellers in Karwan bazar. We have so far recovered 31.04 bhoris of stolen gold ornaments,鈥� DC Sarwar added.
鈥楶olice is continuing their efforts to recover the remaining stolen jewelleries and arrest other people, who were involved with the crimes,鈥� he added.