Bengaluru: Former employee held for stealing watches worth Rs 10 lakh from reputed company
Bengaluru: Police at Parappana Agrahara station have arrested a former employee of a reputed watch company on charges of stealing watches from the workplace. Officials said they have recovered 70 wristwatches worth around Rs 10 lakh from him.
The accused has been identified as 27-year-old Sheshadri Reddy, a native of Andhra Pradesh. He was living in Hongasandra and earlier worked as a delivery boy at the company located in Electronic City Phase II.
According to police, Reddy used to steal one watch at a time while leaving for home after work, without the knowledge of other staff members. Fearing he might get caught, he eventually quit the job.
The thefts came to light when the deputy manager of the company noticed missing stock and grew suspicious of the delivery boy. A complaint was then filed at Parappana Agrahara police station.
During the investigation, police traced and detained Reddy. On questioning, he confessed to stealing the watches. Inspector Satish and his team recovered 70 watches from his bag during the search.
Police said investigations are still on to recover more stolen watches connected to the case.
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8 dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa port
Kyiv (AP): Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine's Emergency Service said on Saturday morning.
Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicentre of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.
The port was struck with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.
The nighttime attack on Friday hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.
The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.
A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
