Noida: Supervisor, transport boy arrested for stealing Rs 6 lakh, loads of devices from Blinkit’s warehouse

A manager and a transport government from a favored on-line food market were arrested on Wednesday for stealing over Rs 6 lakh from its warehouse in Noida, police said.

They identified the accused as Maharaj, 33, the store manager at Blinkit India Pvt. Ltd. in Sector-45, and Sachin, 24, a transport boy on the identical store.

A resident of Ghazipur, Delhi, Maharaj had been working on the store for over a month and Sachin, who belongs to the Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh, became once hired around 6 months ago, in accordance with police officers.

The money became once kept in the store of Blinkit (formerly identified as Grofers) in Sadarpur village, below the jurisdiction of Sector 39 police space, and the theft occurred early on Tuesday, in accordance with Extra Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Ashutosh Dwivedi.

“When the accused were traced it became once discovered that they were in possession of the stolen money and other goods, and that they supposed to promote about a of the objects and put off the rest. Per details offered by our sources, we traced the accused advance a Mom Dairy sales space in Sector 99 on Wednesday and arrested them”, Dwivedi said.

The store remained delivery until about 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday, and a security guard became once stationed delivery air the warehouse. When the warehouse became once opened in the morning, the money and other objects missing from the store, along side a firm computer pc, two DVRs (digital video recorders), and 6 cell phones,  its operator Hardik Goyal’s claimed in his police criticism.

A  FIR became once filed in the case below Indian Penal Code sections 381 (employee committing theft), 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property), and 454 (trespass to commit offence). The duo became once produced in a local court, which remanded them in judicial custody.