Mumbai: The Samta Nagar police in Kandivali east arrested two men for having faked a robbery of 7.5 kg gold consignment worth Rs 2.24 crore. The former was arrested when he was his way to Borivali after returning from Hyderabad on May 30. The accused duo staged the robbery and registered a complaint with Samta Nagar police, following that they went missing. The police then started investigating the case, keeping the duo as prime suspects and eventually arrested them from Borivali on Sunday evening.
Speaking to The Asian Age, Deepak Yadav, senior police inspector of Samta Nagar police station confirmed the arrests and said, “The two had pre-planned the whole thing and staged the robbery to mislead the cops. The gold has been recovered, while gold worth Rs 30 lakh is still missing. We are investigating the matter.”
According to the officials of Samta Nagar police station, the main accused, Manohar Singh Jodha, an employee of a gold retailer in Kalbadevi, had gone to Hyderabad to pick up a gold biscuit consignment on May 30. When he was on his way back, he said that he was robbed by an unknown man in the travel bus, and realised it only after he got down from the bus in Kandivali. Jodha later approached Samta Nagar police station and registered a complaint against an unknown man. The police were sceptical about the story of events that he narrated and were assured about his role in the robbery after he went missing a day after lodging the complaint.
The police then initiated a search operation for the Jodha and his accomplice, and accordingly sent two teams to Hyderabad and Rajasthan. Acting on a tip off, they laid a trap and arrested him and his accomplice Narayan Singh Rathod from Borivali on Sunday.
While interrogating, the duo confessed the crime to Samta Nagar police and the latter recovered 6.3 kg gold worth 1.90 crores.
