Mumbai cops solve Rs20M gold heist case

mumbai — Police have arrested two persons for allegedly robbing a Mumbai-based jeweller last month of gold worth over Rs20 million. The duo hails from Rajasthan, police said.

One Manohar Singh Jodha, used to work as courier for a jeweller of Kalbadevi in Central Mumbai, DCP Zone XII, Vinay Kumar Rathod, said.

For about last three years, Jodha had been ferrying gold from Hyderabad for the jeweller. On May 30, he left with a gold consignment of 7.5kg stuffed in his jacket from Hyderabad in a bus, the official said.

Upon arriving in Mumbai, Jodha told the jeweller that somebody had drugged him in the bus and fled with the jacket containing gold, Rathod said.

On June 3, a case in this regard was registered against unknown persons at Samtanagar police station. However, police got suspicious about Jodha’s involvement in the crime as he fled Mumbai after the case was registered, the DCP said.

“Upon investigation it was revealed that Jodha, along with a businessman from, Rajasthan Narayan Singh Rathod, had committed the crime. He had cooked-up a false story of robbery to mislead his employer and police,” the official said.

Fearing arrest, Jodha and coaccused Rathod kept changing their locations, he said.

The duo was, however, nabbed from Borivali on June 23. They have been sent to police custody till June 30. Police have recovered 6.3kg of stolen gold, worth Rs19 million from their possession, he said.