Bengaluru: Woman chef held for theft

Bengaluru: Two cooks, including a woman, were arrested for separate incidents of thefts in houses where they were employed in Subramanyanagara and Vidyaranyapura police station limits respectively. In the first case the Subramanyanagara police arrested 39-year-old woman cook, who had served coffee laced with sedatives to the house members and made away with 300 grams of gold and silver ornaments, totally worth over Rs 9 lakh from a house in Gayathrinagar. The incident happened on October 7 and the accused has been identified as K. Karthayani alias Ganga alias Janai, a resident of Velipalayam in Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu.

The police have also arrested her lover Thoufik alias Sahul Hamid (21), also hailing from Nagapattinam, who had a role in disposing the stolen jewellery.

According to the police, the incident happened on October 7 around 7 a.m. Karthayani had served the sedative-laced coffee to L.N. Kanthi, the complainant, his wife, son and mother-in-law, the police said. After they fell unconscious, Karthayani made away with the ornaments and fled to Thiruvallur, along with her daughter and Thoufik, the police added.

Karthayani could buy sleeping pills from medical stores as she was suffering from insomnia, and her doctor has prescribed the same, police said.

After the police launched the investigation, they found out that there were cases registered against Karthayani in Tamil Nadu. There was a murder case registered against her in Tiruvallur police station in Chennai for having pushed a man out of a moving train. There was also another case of attempt to murder against Karthayani for poisoning a woman and extortion cases at the Neelankarai police station in Chennai.

She was absconding since then without attending any court hearings and had multiple pending warrants against her, the police said. The city police with the help of their counterparts in Tamil Nadu got credible information about Karthayani’s whereabouts in Thiruvallur and arrested her and Thoufik on November 22 and both have been remanded in judicial custody.