Rs 2.5 lakh stolen from Ballygunge cafe to ‘buy iPhone for girlfriend’, worker arrested

A youth’s desperate bid to gift an iPhone to his girlfriend landed him in jail, police said.

Chanchal Bhuniya, 22, allegedly used a duplicate key to sneak into a Ballygunge cafe where he worked and stole ₹2.5 lakh from the cash box to buy the phone, the police said.

A theft of ₹2,53,000 was reported at the Ballygunge police station on Thursday.