Indore: Two persons have been arrested by police on Wednesday for duping a bullion trader from Tamil Nadu in the name of acquiring his gold ornaments right after exchanging gold in Juni Indore location. The accused also told him to give creating charge for his ornaments. The police also arrested the Sarafa trader, who purchased the ornaments from the accused.
According to Juni Indore police station in-charge Bharat Singh Thakur, Shriniwasan K Naidu, a resident of Coimbatore had lodged a complaint on November 20, 2020 that he is a bullion trader and he had provided an advertisement for his jewellery on line. The accused named Rakesh Soni of Sudama Nagar and Lakahn alias Pawan Soni of Bijasan Colony had contacted the complainant and told him to give his jewellery in exchange of gold of the very same weight. They also promised to give him four per cent creating charge for the jewellery and named him to the city.
On November 20, Naidu reached the city and met the accused, who took his jewellery and assured him to give gold. They later took him to their workplace situated in Sneh Nagar and informed that they are contacting the trader, who will give gold to the complainant. After that the accused fled with the jewellery worth lakhs from there.
The police booked the accused beneath section 420, 34 of the IPC. During the investigation, the police group got to know that the accused are in Ratlam and they arrested them. The accused allegedly confessed duping the man from Tamil Nadu and informed that they had provided the gold ornaments to a single Shiva Sawant of Ambikapuri location. The police have recovered two gold pieces weighing about 150 grams from him. A mobile telephone, their car and 24 silver chains have been also recovered from the accused.