A 23-year-old man was arrested for allegedly decamping with three kilogram of gold which his employer had given him to handover to another trader, police said on Thursday.
The stolen gold was recovered from the house of the accused, they added.
On January 14, Mohit Agarwal, who owns a jewellery shop in Chandni Chowk, had approached the Kotwali police station with a complaint against his employee, who had gone missing with three kilogram gold, said the police.
No police verification
The accused Ashish Yadav alias Nantu is a resident of Gaya district in Bihar. He was working at Shivam Jewellers in Chandni Chowk since last one month. However, his police verification was not done by the owner. He was given two boxes containing gold jewellery weighing approximately three kg and told to hand it over to another jeweller in the same area,” said a police officer.
He left the shop with the jewellery, but never returned. Based on a complaint from Mr.Agarwal, an FIR under IPC Section 408 (criminal breach of trust) was registered at Kotwali police station.
A police team under the supervision of Kotwali police station SHO Rajeev Bhardwaj was sent to Gaya.
“With the help of local police and using technical surveillance, the police team managed to nab Ashish Yadav on Wednesday. He was arrested and the entire jewellery recovered from his house. The accused was taken on one-day transit remand and produced before the court on Thursday and has been sent to jail,” said a police officer.