A day after gold ornaments were stolen from Muthoot Finance a five member team of auditors arrived here from Muthoot Finance’s regional office in Bhubaneshwar this morning to verify the stock of gold ornaments and the related documents.
Sources informed that in all 467 packets of gold ornaments out of 2,100 were found missing from the Mango branch of Muthoot Finance where a gang of six armed criminals had barged in on Monday aftrnoon.
Circle inspector of Pardih, Satyendra Prasad was present during the verification of the packets throughout the day said its net worth are being ascertained by the team of auditors. Some packets contained small quantity of gold ornaments like 10 grams while the others were of more than 200 grams.
Meanwhile, Jamshedpur police with the help of Bokaro Police nabbed the driver of a pic-up van identified as Parikshit Mahto from Chandankyari area in Bokaro, which the robbers had used in the loot.
The driver who is in a police custody here had revealed to the police that a group of six persons had hired his vehicle from Chandankyari in Bokaro to Jamshedpur .
Significantly, police recovered six fire-arms including four pistols besides 17 cartridges from the pick-up van. The fire-arms had two country-made pistols.