nThe Chhattisgarh Police on Friday arrested three persons and seized gold ornaments weighing 4.86 kg and valued at Rs 2.22 crore and Rs 32.84 lakh in cash in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district.
Mahasamund Superintendent of Police Prafull Kumar Thakur told The Pioneer over telephone that the arrested men were Bharat Rajput, Sharad Sharma and a car driver, Devendra Kumar Sahu.
At a routine vehicle checking, police intercepted a car (CG-04, MJ-1150) at the interstate check post in the Singhora police station limitst and searched it. They found the gold ornaments and cash inside a plastic box in a separate chamber, Thakur said.
The accused claimed that the gold ornaments belonged to the proprietor of Kushal Jewellers in Raipur and they were returning from Odisha after selling some jewellery. But they failed to produce any documents showing the ownership of the jewellery.
Police seized gold ornaments weighing 4.86 kg including 124 gold mangal sutra weighing 1,555.14 grams, 15 kalipot pearl weighing 57.85 grams, 54 gold bangles weighing 1,502.67 grams, 189 gold rings weighing 772.05 grams, 17 gold bracelets weighing 347.830 grams, 40 gold lockets weighing 116.890 grams and 25 gold biscuits (piece) weighing 510.24 besides Rs 32.84 lakh in cash, Thakur added.