Gujarat: Ex-employees steal gold plate worth Rs 37 lakh

RAJKOT: Two persons were arrested on Monday for stealing a gold plate worth Rs 36.8 lakh from a gold plating firm in an industrial estate on Mahudi Road on October 12.
Police said that the two accused Gaurav Khinsuriya and Tejas Saretha stole the gold plate weighing 1kg from the machine owned by Himanshu Jogiya, a resident of Dhebar Road.
Jogiya informed the cops that very few would know that there is a gold plate inside the machine. Also, only an expert or a person familiar with the gold plating work can remove the gold from the machine. Suspecting that an insider might have committed the theft, police questioned all current and past employees of Jogiya.
Khinsuriya and Saretha, who worked for Jogiya and were removed from the job around a year ago, were also questioned. During the interrogation, the duo broke down and admitted that they had stolen the gold plate along with CCTV cameras, digital video recorder, computer, weighing scale and a pen drive. The duo had broken the lock on the machine and after removing the vacuum, stole the gold plate.
The two revealed that they had given the gold plate to their accomplice Vijay Koli for selling it and the remaining valuables were thrown away in a pond.