Worker steals diamonds worth Rs 1.47 crore from businessman to teach a lesson

Goregaon police have arrested a workshop employee accused of stealing diamonds worth Rs 147 crore from a diamond businessman The theft was allegedly motivated by the workers anger over the businessmanrsquos son abusing workers and cutting their wagesThe accused stole the diamonds from the workshop to teach a lesson to the businessman and his son He then made a video showing himself throwing a packet into a drain while hurling abuse at them sending the clip as a tauntInitially it was believed that the packet thrown into the drain contained the stolen diamonds However the accused had used a decoy packet while keeping the real diamonds with himself He then fled the sceneAfter the businessman filed a complaint the police launched an investigation Following nearly a month of efforts the accused was arrested and diamonds worth approximately Rs 140 crore were recovered from his possessionAccording to police sources the arrested accused has been identified as Sachin Jaswant Makwana 40 a resident of 90 Foot Road Kampla Park Bhayandar West Makwana originally from Idar in Sabarkantha district Gujarat had been working at a jewellery workshop in Jawahar Nagar Goregaon West for six months On December 10 he allegedly fled the workshop which specializes in the quality checking of diamonds after stealing diamonds worth approximately Rs 147 croreThe workshop owner filed a complaint at Goregaon Police Station prompting an investigation Under the guidance of DCP Anand Bhoite and ACP Hemant Sawant special teams of two detection officers PSI Ram Vaishnav and PSI Vijendra Kale from Goregaon Police Station were formed and they along with their staff began the investigationAfter nearly 20 days of investigation the accused was traced to his village where he was arrested He was brought to Mumbai yesterday for further proceedings and the cops have recovered diamonds valued at Rs 140 croreldquoMakwana had switched off his mobile phone leaving no immediate clues about his whereabouts We reviewed CCTV footage from the crime scene and surrounding areas He was spotted on camera in Bhayandar and Fountain Ghodbunder before leaving in a transport vehicle after which no further leads were foundWe obtained his call records and began tracking him through those From the CDR Call Detail Records we retrieved his parentsrsquo phone numbers However no activity was recorded on their phones after his disappearance While monitoring updates from the CDR we identified a suspicious number that had contacted the accusedrsquos motherWe began tracing this number but the location kept shifting between Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat Two police teams were assigned to the casemdashone stationed near the accusedrsquos village and the other actively tracing his movements Eventually when his location was pinpointed near his village the police laid a trap and successfully took him into custodyrdquo said an officer from Goregaon police stationThe suspicious number was traced to a friend of the accused The friend was unaware of the theft as the accused had taken him along under the pretext of going on a trip During this time they visited several temples and religious sites Makwana had used his friendrsquos number to call his mother He disconnected the call after hearing her say Makwana who had a deep bond with his mother was married but had a strained relationship with his wife who was living separately During interrogation Makwana revealed that he had no intention of stealing for personal gain Instead he committed the theft to teach the owners son a lesson He explained that the owners son frequently mistreated the workers verbally abused them and arbitrarily cut their wages The workshop owner reportedly supported his sons behavior which fueled Makwanarsquos resentment Driven by a sense of revenge Makwana stole the diamonds to make a statement and teach them both a lessonrdquo the officer addedldquoWe have arrested the accused and recovered 9637 of the stolen property from him He was produced before the court yesterday and the court remanded him to police custodyrdquo said ACP Hemant Sawant from Goregaon division