Cuttack: In a major breakthrough, the Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested two gold bar looters from Cuttack. The arrested persons have been identified as Rajkishore Sahu and Jitendra Sahu.
As per reports, the accused duo had looted a gold bar worth Rs 36 lakhs from one Santosh Kumar Rana, a Balasore-based jeweller.
Rajkishore Sahu and Jitendra Sahu had reportedly contacted Rana to provide 1200 grams of ornaments instead of the gold bar weighing 800 grams.
As per their plan, Rana came to Cuttack on March 9 and handed over the gold bar to Rajkishore and Jitendra as they asked it on the pretext of testing the quality of the yellow metal. However, he lodged a complaint with Purighat police station on March 11 after failing to trace the duo.
Excellent work done by Purighat PS. They acted very swiftly to a big cheating case & within a very short period arrested both deceivers who fraudulently & deceitfully cheated to a Jeweller.Loot fine gold tablet weighing 800.330 grams worth Rs.36,97,524/- have also been recovered. pic.twitter.com/nAvqQ5EPnx
— DCP CUTTACK (@dcp_cuttack) March 14, 2021
Based on Rana’s complaint, Purighat police had started an investigation into the matter and subsequently arrested Rajkishore and Jitendra today. The gold bar also was recovered from their possession.
Meanwhile, they have been forwarded to the court.
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