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Landlord flees with tenant’s gold, cash worth ₹4.9 crore
The employees purchased 4 kilograms of gold jewellery and kept it in the locker along with ₹2.5 crore in cash, said a police officer. However, the next day when the employees reached the shop, the landlord’s employees did not allow the employees and Jain himself to enter the building
MUMBAI: A case has been registered by the LT Marg police against a building owner and two of his aides for allegedly fleeing with gold jewellery weighing four kilograms worth ₹2.4 crore and ₹2.5 crore cash after breaking into his own commercial tenement in Kalbadevi area that he had rented out to a jeweller from Bengaluru.
The police have arrested Dnyaneshwar Bhuwad, 43, a resident of Virar and are searching for the landlord, Sanjay Goyal, and one more unidentified person.
The case has been registered by Vikram Kumar Jain, 45, who runs Arihant Platinum Jewellery store in Bengaluru. Jain had taken Goyal’s shop in Cotton Exchange, Kalbadevi on rent by paying a deposit of ₹27 lakh, said the police.
“His employees used to purchase gold from the Kalbadevi market. On June 16, they purchased 4 kilograms of gold jewellery and kept it in the locker along with ₹2.5 crore in cash, said a police officer. However, the next day when the employees reached the shop, the landlord’s employees did not allow the employees and Jain himself to enter the building. Jain then spoke to Goyal, who told him that they would meet and later started avoiding his calls.”
Jain approached the police on Monday, after checking the CCTV footage of the shop, he noticed that Goyal entered the shop and came out with a heavy bag. “We found that he along with his employee Bhuwad and one unknown person broke the lock of the shutter and opened the locker kept in the shop and fled with the cash and jewellery,” said the police officer.
The police immediately registered a case under the sections 380 (theft in dwelling house), 454 (punishment for lurking house-trespass or house-breaking), and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. They have arrested Bhuwad, and are searching for the landlord and his unknown accomplice.
