Kotwali police have nabbed a 35-year-old man for stealing gold jeweleries worth Rs 25 lakh from jewelry shop at Chintaman Chouraha on Wednesday.
Police said that the accused Mukul Gupta was nabbed after it was found that the gold jewelry was stolen by him on Tuesday. The accused works with Shriram Vijayvargiya Jewelers and stole gold jewelry from the shop.
A complaint was lodged with the police by the victim Raj Vijayvargiya stating that the accused Mukul used to work for the past three years and on Tuesday he left the shop for lunch while Mukul was at the shop to look after the shop and when he returned Mukul was not present at the shop and his mobile phone was found switched off when contacted by the victim. After the victim failed to contact the accused he checked the belongings and found that the bag carrying 13 boxes of gold boxes carrying 240 gold bangles worth Rs 25 lakh was missing.
Victim lodged complaint with the police and based on the complaint police started search and nabbed the accused on Wednesday and recovered the gold jewelry from his possession.
Meanwhile, a 24-year-old youth was robbed at knife point at Harswardhan Nagar under TT Nagar police station area in the night on Tuesday. Police said that the Shubham Prajapat who runs a pan shop in Harshwardhan Nagar area was robbed by three miscreants who snatched Rs 700 cash in the evening.
The accused came and at knife point frisked victim and took Rs 700 cash and other documents and when they failed to get cash they took packets of cigarettes and escaped from the spot. Police have registered a case under section 392 of the IPC and started investigation.