Mumbai Police has arrested a domestic worker working at the residence of Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal on charges of theft and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.

Vishnu Kumar Vishwakarma, 28, worked as house help at Piyush Goyal's residence at the plush high-rise named Villa Orb in Mumbai's Nepean Sea Road area. He is currently in judicial custody.

The case came to light after some silverware and rare brass materials from the house were found missing by Piyush Goyal's family members last month.

The theft allegedly took place between September 16 and 18. Following which, an FIR was filed against Vishwakarma at Gamdevi Police Station.

Gamdevi police tracked Vishwakarma to Delhi and arrested him a few days ago. He was interrogated and some stolen items were recovered from him.

However, police suspected that some confidential data was stolen from Piyush Goyal's personal computer and also documents from his files. This led cops to check Vishwakarma's phone.



On further verification, it was found that Vishwakarma had sent some emails to unidentified persons and had deleted some data from the phone.

This strengthened the suspicion of confidential data being stolen. After which, Vishwakarma's phone was handed over to the cyber cell of Mumbai Police to retrieve the deleted data and trace the email IDs to which Vishwakarma sent emails.

Cops were also going through Vishwakarma 's call records to find out about the people he was in touch with.

Vishwakarma worked for the Union Minister for past three years and in this period, he had gained the family's trust who never suspected him of committing such crime.

Further investigation is underway to find out if Vishwakarma was leaking some important government data and files from Piyush Goyal's residence.