Gold loot: Ahmedabad man caught selling stolen booty in Bhuj

RAJKOT: Kutch police on Monday arrested one person want in connection with the 5kg gold jewellery loot from a parked car in Vadodara last month.
The accused Manish alias Manoj Sevani (30), a resident of Kubernagar in Ahmedabad was arrested from New Station road in Bhuj by the local police.
Police said that also seized 88 grams of gold jewellery and Rs 3.75 lakh cash from Sevani who was travelling in a car. Bhuj police said that Sevani had come to Bhuj to sell his share of the stolen gold jewellery at a lower price.
He has been in Bhuj for the last few days and had been sending cash to Ahmedabad through an angadia (local courier) firm.
“Six persons were involved in the Rs 2.35 crore gold jewellery theft. Sevani has already sent Rs 27 lakh cash via angadia firm to his brother-in-law in Bapunagar in Ahmedabad till now,” police sources said.
Last week, Ahmedabad crime branch officials had nabbed Amit Abhawekar (24) from Mandvi ni Pol in Astodia area of Ahmedabad with jewellery worth Rs 26 lakh. On questioning Abhawekar, he had revealed names of his accomplices Sevani, Uttam Atmaram, Vishal Tamanche, Boby Rathod, and Sunny Tamanche.
The accused had targeted a Rajkot-based jeweller Vipul Dhakan after noticing his stop at a snack shop with his associates in Vadodara. The accused broke the windowpane on the driver’s side of Dhakan’s car, opened the boot of the car where the jewellery was kept and fled with jewellery weighing about 5.75kg.
Dhakan, had arrived in Vadodara city on June 16 with his salesman Jalpesh Lathigara and driver Praful Dangar. They had brought jewellery weighing about 5.75kg worth Rs 2.35 crore. They sold about 850gm jewellery to a jeweller in Alkapuri before checking into a hotel. On June 18, they were to leave for Rajkot when they stopped at an eatery near Chhani Jakatnaka, from where the jewellery was looted.