CHENNAI: The burqa clad woman who left behind a jewellery bag in HDFC bank's Velachery branch on December 5 turned out to be a former manager (Vault in-charge) at the branch. She was arrested by the Chennai Police last month for stealing jewels from a NRI customer's locker.

Based on a complaint by bank authorities, police traced the woman to a hostel in Velachery and found that the woman who abandoned the jewellery by hiding underneath a burqa was, in fact, the manager Padmapriya (37), who was out on conditional bail.

Padmapriya was arrested by the EDF wing of the Central Crime Branch based on a complaint by an NRI, Swaroopa Rani Sivakumar, who had a locker at HDFC’s Velachery branch and had authorised her mother in Chennai to access it. During a routine check, the family found gold jew

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