A conman posing as a goldsmith from West Bengal made away with about 3 kg of gold worth Rs1 crore by drugging some goldsmiths at a jewellery factory in Sarafa locality late Thursday night. The incident came to light on Friday morning when factory manager reached the factory and saw six goldsmiths lying unconsciously.
He immediately informed about the matter to Sarafa police. later with the help of other goldsmiths, he sent all the drugged goldsmiths initially to the district hospital and from where they were referred to MY Hospital.Sarafa police after being informed about the matter rushed to the incident site and sealed the jewelry factory.
CSP Sarafa Sunil Patidar informed that incident occurred late Thursday night in a gold jewelry factory owned by one Manas at Balaji Complex in Sarafa. Manas collects gold from merchants and after making gold chains at his factory, he gives it back to the traders. CSP said that a total of seven gold smiths from Bengal are working in his factory.
On Thursday night, one of the goldsmiths named Saidullah, a native of 24 Pargana district in West Bengal had reportedly brought dinners for his colleagues but he himself avoided taking the dinner on some pretext. After eating dinner, all his colleagues fell unconscious as he had reportedly mixed some intoxicants in the food items. Seeing his colleagues lying unconscious, he collected the gold estimated to be around Rs 1 crore and fled.
The factory owner Manas when reached his factory on Friday morning, found all the goldsmiths lying unconscious, while Saidullah was found missing. According to Manas, about three kgs gold was lying in his factory but he did not find it in the morning.
This was not the first time when such an incident has occurred in Sarafa. According to police, on earlier occasions also, they have report of Bengali goldsmiths fleeing with gold. Meanwhile condition of victims identified as Subhash, Parveen, Totan, Sunil, Pintu and Tapan who are admitted to MY hospital, is stated to be out of danger.