KOLKATA: A trusted caregiver (ayah) in her 50s — hired from a reputable centre — was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing gold and diamond ornaments and several lakhs in cash from her employer in Lake Town last year when the latter was down with Covid-19.
The employers — a 58-year-old retired assistant professor from Lake Town and her 62-year-old husband, a businessman by profession — trusted and cared about the woman so much that they didn’t even lodge a complaint even after they found out about the theft and tried to convince the caregiver to come down for a talk with the hope she “would realize her mistake. ” But the caregiver stopped taking their calls after a while and after they failed to contact her through her centre, they lodged a complaint with Lake Town Police last week.
