Four Maha men held for theft of `38L gold on bus

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The city police on Friday cracked the theft case in which two employees of a jewellery shop in Mumbai were robbed of their jewels worth `38 lakh on a private bus in the city. Four persons from Mah­arashtra have been arrested in connection with the theft.

The complainant Sanjay Jain, 37, owns a jewellery shop in Mumbai. On September 28, he sent gold jewellery weighing six kilos with his employees Manoj and K.P Singh to be delivered at jewellery sho­wrooms in Madurai, Coi­mb­atore and Chennai. Aft­er completing their work in Madurai, the duo boar­ded a private bus to Chen­n­ai with 5.75 kg of gold.

“When the bus reached Tambaram, Manoj and Singh were shocked to fi­nd the bag containing the gold missing,” police said.

A special team for­med to crack the case traced the accused to Mahar­ashtra. Further in­v­estig­ations re­v­ealed that Vilas Bhee­marao, Rama Rao and Chandu of Osm­an­abad in Maharashtra were behind the theft. “ The trio stole the valuables and sold them to Poonekar Tikole in Maha­rashtra. He was arrested and 191 sovereigns of gold was recovered from him,” police said.