Domestic aide steals Magistrate’s jewellery

Chamikara Weerasinghe

A woman aged 50 arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing Rs.320,000 worth of jewellery from a house of an Additional Magistrate in Aniwatte in Kandy was released on personal bail of Rs. 100,000 by Chief Magistrate Sumudu Premachandra.

Chief Magistrate Premachandra ordered the release pending trial on October 26. after she pleaded guilty to the theft.

The suspect was a domestic worker employed by the Additional Magistrate, police said.

OIC, Kandy Police, Ranjith Balasuriya said, the police recovered the stolen jewellery items pawned at two private pawnbroker’s shops in Kandy town.

The suspect had deposited the stolen jewellery with the pawnbrokers.