Overview

• Khurshid was arrested on Saturday and remanded to police custody on June 3 as detectives probe missing cash and jewellery from the Special Cell’s Lodhi Road storeroom.
• Audits and recoveries have pushed the estimated value of stolen assets above ₹1.5 crore, up from initial figures near ₹51 lakh.
• Police allege the constable exploited his former posting to duplicate malkhana keys and carried out two separate raids within 45 days.
• Delhi Police has ordered a review of internal safeguards and increased guard deployments to 20 personnel at each evidence vault.
• In a separate operation, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force arrested Nigerian national David Leanne in Tilak Nagar with 282 grams of cocaine.