Mumbai, March 22 Police have arrested a worker from Mumbai's Siddhivinayak temple for allegedly stealing money from donation boxes, officials said on Sunday.
The incident came to light on March 20 after staff reviewed 10 days of CCTV footage from the revered Ganesha shrine in the city's Prabhadevi area.
Police said the temple officials had suspected that the worker had been stealing money.
The CCTV footage showed him repeatedly withdrawing cash from donation boxes, according to the official, citing the FIR registered against him. It also showed the temple employee using his fingers to extract money from a donation box in the priest's chamber.
Taking the staffer's alleged misconduct seriously, the temple authorities filed a complaint with the Dadar police station.
The temple officials suspect that the worker has already stolen at least Rs 10,000.
An investigation is underway to determine whether the worker had stolen on previous occasions, how much he may have accumulated, and whether any other temple employee was involved in the alleged crime, the official added.