Pramesh S Jain & Binish Thomas (Sub-Editor)
The Whitefield police on Tuesday arrested a 29-year-old system administrator of a private company for stealing 50 laptops worth Rs.22 lakh .
The accused Murugesh M,from Hosur was arrested from a theatre in Hosur where he was watching movie .
Senior officer said,Murugesh,a BCA graduate was working as a system administrator at a company in Whitefield for the last six years .
Inquiries revealed that he had incurred huge loss during covid as he had invested around Rs.25 lakh in the farm house and could not recover.
In order to repay the losses he decided to steal laptops and sell it to a shop at his hometown.In the last six months,the accused had stolen as many as 50 laptops and sell it to the electronic shop to repay the loan.
The incident came to light during annual audit by the company and realized huge number of laptops were missing.
The company executives analysed the CCTV footage and realized that Murugesh was stealing laptops.Based on the complaint,the Whitefield police track down the accused to his home town and recovered the stolen valuables.
