Nine workers arrested for theft of gold worth Rs 89 lakh from city firm

Bengaluru,

Nine persons were arrested for the alleged theft of gold bars and ornaments from a private company in the city where they had been employed, police said on Tuesday. The matter came to light after the owner of the private gold company on Nagarathpet Main Road lodged a complaint at Halasuru Gate Police Station on May 12. According to the complaint, nine workers employed at the company for the past six months to carry out gold and silver work had allegedly stolen gold bars and ornaments from the premises on the night of May 11 and fled.

During the investigation, police gathered credible information through inquiries from multiple angles that the nine workers were travelling from Bengaluru to West Bengal via Visakhapatnam by train, a senior police officer said. Acting on this information, on May 13, police apprehended the nine workers near a railway station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, along with the stolen gold bars and ornaments.

During interrogation, the accused confessed to their involvement in the crime, following which they were produced before the jurisdictional court and remanded to police custody for two days, the officer said. During detailed interrogation, the accused stated that they committed the theft because their salaries were not being paid regularly and because they wanted to make easy money, the officer said. With the arrest of the nine accused, police recovered a total of 618 grams of gold bars and ornaments worth Rs 89 lakh. They have since been remanded to judicial custody, police said.