The Jharsuguda police on Friday arrested two persons for buying jewellery articles from various places with forged cheques.
An FIR had been lodged by Naresh Chand Agrawal, the jewellery shop owner on Jharsuguda Main Road on August 7, alleging that a woman, Sukumani Turi, purchased two gold chains, two rings and an earring costing Rs 1,38,860. Out of the total amount, the woman paid Rs 50,000 in cash and handed over a cheque for the remaining amount of Rs 88, 860 drawn on the Axis Bank Rourkela branch, said SDPO Parshuram Sethi.
later, on presentation of the said cheque in the bank, the cheque was dishonoured by the bank with the remark “payment stopped by drawer" and communicated to Naresh Agrawal.
The arrestees are identified as Sukhmani Tuni (32) and her lover Sagar Singh (30) residents of Khursipar, Bhilai in Chhattisgarh.
The police seized a Maruti Swift Desire Car with number CG-08-D-7500, cash of Rs 1,27,000, a laptop, two mobile phones, forged cheque books, other forged documents, PAN cards, number of SIM cards and a bunch of cash memos of different jewellery shops from their possession.