,Anandabazar Patrika,December 1,2010
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
A gold necklace was stolen from the throat of an old lady after making senseless.As were property of value about 1.5 lakh rupees including jewellery.The theft took place in house no. 46/8 of BB Block in Saltlake,Kolkata,on 25th November.The maid servant has also been missing since the theft,said Shobhan Basu,the son of the victim and the owner of the house,where he resides along with his family.
Shantilata Basu,Shobhan Basu's old mother had been admitted to a hospital in the wake of complications that arose due to poisoning.The Basus say,Shantilata fell senseless due to poisonous adulteration of her food.Then the necklace was severed from her.The keys of the almirah were moved and the theft committed.
The maid servant had been employed some two days before the theft.Mr. Basu says that he came to know about the maid from a florist in the AB-AC market.The maid gave her name as Kobita Basu and address in Gaighata.He further says,besides her mother,the maid was the only other person present in the house at the time when the theft is supposed to have taken place.He suspects her of administering some unwholesome substance in his mother's food which made her unconscious.
Mr. Basu had failed to inform the police of the particulars of the maid before the theft took place,in disregard of the official requests of Kolkata Police to the public to furnish immediate information,along with photograph(s),on any new domestic help engaged since the murder of a woman by her maid took place nearly a year ago.Additional Superintendent of Police,Bidhannagar,Debabrata Das confirmed that the supposed address of the maid provided by Mr. Basu is false.
--- Translated,adapted and shared by Ratul Das
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