Bengali actress caught stealing

Kolkata: Actor Rupa Dutta has been arrested for allegedly committing attention-diverting theft at the venue of the International Kolkata Book Fair, the police said on Sunday.

Ms Dutta, who has acted in television soaps, was arrested on Saturday after a policeman saw her throwing a purse into a dustbin, an officer of Bidhan Nagar North police station said. She was then detained and questioned, during which discrepancies were found in her answers.

Several purses and `75,000 in cash were found from her bag during a search, he said. — PTI