Overview

• Special commissioner of police (crime) Devesh Srivastava said the accused, identified as Bhushan Verma, was arrested by a crime branch team in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh.
• The theft occurred on September 3 during the Jain community’s Daslakshan Mahaparv at the Red Fort’s 15 August Park as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla visited the stage area.
• CCTV footage shows a man in dhoti-kurta posing as a devotee placing the vessel into a bag before leaving the venue.
• The gold kalash weighs about 760 grams with roughly 115–150 grams of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, is valued at over ₹1 crore, and was brought daily for rituals by businessman Sudhir Kumar Jain.
• An e-FIR was lodged at Kotwali under BNS section 303(2); police earlier said a smaller jhari and a gold coconut were also reported stolen, and recovery efforts are ongoing.