MUMBAI: Five days after a theft took place at the Khar home of retired judge Abhay Thipsay, the family driver was arrested on Thursday for allegedly stealing Rs 1.60 lakh from the safe, said officials of Khar police station. A maid, who had been arrested earlier on suspicion, has been released from jail.The accused driver, Abhinandan Bhagavte alias Nandu (23), had made a duplicate key of the flat. Thipsay's son, Ashutosh, an advocate, caught Nandu red-handed, the police said.Sources said that the judge and his wife were in Bhopal and were to return on Wednesday. Ashutosh had told the driver to pick his parents up from the airport around 6pm as he would be in court and the driver was to fetch the car keys from a relative's house as nobody would be at home. "But Ashutosh reached home by 3.30pm. He was in the bedroom when he heard movement in the hall and was found Nandu there," said an officer.Ashutosh, who remembered having latched the door from inside, confronted Nandu and called up the police. A search led to the recovery of a duplicate key, the police said, adding that Nandu confessed to stealing Rs 1.60 lakh on February 16.

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