New Delhi, March 20 A young man has been arrested for allegedly stealing gold and diamond jewelry worth approximately Rs 90 lakh from a house in northwest Delhi to fund his drug addiction, police said on Friday.
The accused, identified as Sunny Sarkar (22), a resident of Burari, was apprehended with 400 grams of stolen jewelry, they added.
Police said the accused is a drug addict and had allegedly been involved in petty thefts, including stealing water meters, but had never been caught.
Sarkar allegedly targeted a house near Ramlila ground in Mukherjee Nagar after finding it unsecured. "He entered the house after the main gate opened easily and found the keys to the cupboard inside, and stole the jewelry," a senior officer said.
During the investigation, police scanned CCTV footage from the area, which showed the accused entering the house from the front and exiting through the rear, before walking towards Batra Bandh and later taking an e-rickshaw to Coronation Park.
During interrogation, Sarkar confessed to the crime, and the entire amount of stolen jewelry was recovered from his house, police said, adding that he had committed the theft to fund his drug habit.
