A 37-year-old BSES labour supervisor was arrested for allegedly stealing cable worth Rs 10 lakh from a metro site in Jamia Nagar, the police said today.
On December 5, BSES contractor Karan Sharma approached the police with a complaint about theft of a wooden drum containing 492 metres of cable weighing 4,400 kg from an underconstruction Jamia Milia University metro station site, they added.
During investigation, the police analysed the CCTV footages from the site. In one of the CCTV footages, a hydra crane and a tempo were seen passing in front of Holy Family hospital in the night.
The police team traced the crane and the owner revealed that it was hired by a BSES employee for lifting the heavy cable wire roll, said Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast).
Yesterday, the police nabbed one Ashwani Kumar alias Bablu, a BSES contractual labour supervisor in connection with the theft, said the officer.
He tried to sell the stolen cable to three-four junk dealers in Okhla and Badarpur but since it was government property they all refused to buy it, he added.
The accused was looking for some junk dealers outside Delhi to dispose off the cable wire. He dumped the cable roll behind Batra hospital in the jungle area and the stolen wire was recovered.
Earlier, he used to work as a cab driver and was working as a BSES contractor from last one year.
He was arrested in 2006 also in connection with a murder-cum-robbery case in Gurgaon and remained in Bhondsi Jail till 2010.
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