11 days police custody for two gold coin thieves

Vadodara: The general manager of CH Jewellers and his friend who had stolen 7,853 grams of gold coins were remanded to 11 days of police custody by a local court on Wednesday.
Accused Veeral Soni and Taraj Dewanji were produced before the court on Wednesday and cops wanted their custody to recover the stolen valuables. “They will grilled about who did they sell the gold coins to and if there were other people involved as well,” said a police official.
Soni had used three names – Marmik Patel, Manav Patel and Meet Patel – to generate fake credit vouchers. “We will probe if any people with such names actually exist and if they are involved in the scam,” cops said.
Upholding public prosecutor M K Mewada’s arguments, the court sent duo to police custody till August 22.
Soni had siphoned off coins worth Rs 4 crore from the showroom and sold them through Dewanji to allegedly fund his son’s foreign education and also repay home loan. But as Soni was using credit vouchers with same customers’ names, his colleagues became suspicious and alerted the showroom’s owner.