Mumbai: Man, two GRP officials held in Trombay for stealing Karnataka businessman's 4.5 kg gold

The police with the recovered gold. Pic/ Mumbai Police

The Mumbai Police on Monday said that it has solved a case of gold theft and has made a hundred per cent recovery of the property that was meant to be delivered to Zaveri Bazar in south Mumbai. Police sources said, three accused including a worker of a Karnataka based businessman and two GRP officials has been held in the matter.

According to the police, a Mengaluru, Karnataka-based gold trader had sent a delivery of gold consignment through one of his employees. The gold weighing about 4.5 kg was to be delivered to south Mumbai. When the employee did not reach the destination, the employer called him to inquire to which he responded by saying that the gold was stolen.

"He told his employer that the gold was stolen. Later a complaint was filed at Trombay police station. Senior Police Inspector Ravindar Ransherwar of Trombay Police immediately asked the detection staff to form a team and investigate the case," a police official said.

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He added, a case was registered under sections 408 (Criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant) and section 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy other than a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence) of the IPC and the team then began to investigate the matter.

The police said the team used technical clues and evidence. It questioned the employee identified as Nitin Patil (28) in detail. After sustained interrogations, Patil confessed to committing the crime along with two of his aides who were later identified as Prabhakar Natekar and Vikas Pawar.

During the probe, the police found that the employee's involvement in the theft. The accused admitted that he had conspired with two GRP constables to show that the gold had been stolen, an official said.

In the course of investigations, the team was able to make a 100 per cent recovery of the stolen gold and further investigations in the case are being done by inspector Fareed Khan of the Trombay police station, the police said.