Kolkata Police arrested a caregiver for stealing INR 18 Lakhs from a senior citizen!

An NRI lady hired an attendant, from a reputed senior care agency to look after her mother in Kolkata, India. She stays all alone in Lake Town, Kolkata. The lady accused this caregiver has stolen Rs 18 lakhs from the senior woman’s bank account over the past two years.
On Thursday last week,5th Jan 2023, the Lake Town police arrested the accused, after the senior woman Jayashree Mukherjee and her daughter Liza complained against him in the Police Station. Being a retired school teacher like her late husband, the victim Jayashree Mukherjee gets a handsome amount as her monthly pension.
The Police informed that Biswas used to pursue the senior woman to sign multiple cheques alleging that her signature was not matching. He also used the debit card given to him by the woman to withdraw cash from her account.
The stealing came in front as Liza came back to Kolkata from London. She was going through her mother’s passbook when she noticed some abnormalities in few transactions.
The agency from where the family had been hiring caregivers has its Head Office in Harish Mukherjee Road, Kolkata with branches in Howrah, Kalyani, and Bhubaneshwar in Odisha. The agency has been offering elder-care services since 2014.
Since 2018 the family has been hiring caregivers from the agency at a monthly payment of Rs.8, 000.
The Police even added that in 2020, Biswas took over from another person and started working with the family. In a short span of time, he was able to win the confidence of the senior lady.

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