Thane, Mar 22 (PTI) Police have registered a case against a former woman accounts clerk of a co-operative credit society in Maharashtra’s Thane city for allegedly stealing customers’ gold ornaments of Rs 5.66 lakh, officials said on Sunday.
The alleged offence took place between June and October 2025, when the 22-year-old accused was working with the credit society in the Kalwa area.
During this period, she allegedly stole gold ornaments mortgaged by three customers and kept in the credit society’s locker, a police official said.
The matter came to light after the customers approached the society to reclaim their ornaments upon repayment of their loans, he said.
Based on a complaint, the Kalwa police registered an FIR on March 20 against the accused under section 306 (theft by a clerk or servant of property in their master’s possession) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the official said. PTI COR GK
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