College student steals gold worth Rs 1 crore from uncle's house in Bengaluru with 3 friends for trips, all arrested
The Kothanur police arrested four college students who stole over 1.6kg of gold ornaments on multiple occasions and recovered 548 grams of it and Rs 10 lakh in cash.
The arrested accused, between 19 and 22 years old, have been identified as Sanchita, Yeshwanth, Ram Prakash, and Thanush. They are pursuing BBA and BCom in different colleges of the city.
The main accused is the niece of the complainant Srinivas BN, a civil contractor residing in CKMR Gardens in Doddagubbi of Kothanur.
Her family resides opposite the complainant's house and was a frequent visitor.
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Srinivas, in his complaint of June 9, suspected his two domestic helpers. He also told police that a few gold ornaments went missing in Jan, but he didn't file a complaint then, as he felt it would tarnish his image.
The complainant's family members had worn gold ornaments, usually kept in an iron locker, on May 22 for an event. They discovered that some of these ornaments went missing on June 6.
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Many ornaments, including gold bangles, chains, earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets and finger rings, weighing over 1.6kg and estimated to be worth Rs 1 crore, were stolen from Jan till June, according to the complaint.
During investigation, police also started checking frequent visitors to the house. They summoned Sanchita on June 27 after finding that she had recently gone on multiple trips with her friends.
On questioning, she revealed she was close to another accused Yeshwanth and she decided to steal from her uncle's house to go on trips with friends.
She stole ornaments on multiple occasions and gave them to Yeshwanth, who passed these to his friends, Ram and Thanush, who pledged or sold them. Some gold ornaments and cash were recovered from the accused and a few were disposed of in jewellery shops in Chickpete. Police detained Yeshwanth and subsequently, arrested his two friends.
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