Mr.Sury I do agree with Naresh Chandra, In my organization, Bangalore also same thing was happened, when he resigned the service did not return Lap Top and Car, we did not relive him, he was working in other company at Haydarabad. In very case as Law Officer I lodged the Complaint in jurisdiction police station against him for ‘misappropriation of the Company Property’ not for ‘theft’, I made fully effort to collect his information and company name in Hyadarabad and gave to Inspector, the cops just telephoned him and told him about complaint before registering complaint, finally he scared and came to Bangalore, given apology letter also and handed over the laptop and car to us. Hence complaint was withdrawn, whatever his last month claims was settled amicable.
Hence you cannot say ‘theft’. It is my considered view that he was your employee and how can you can. Because Company only provide the things to its employee to discharge its day to day works so where is the question of theft.
Regards
BASAVRAJ.R