Gujarat: Old gold coins stolen from home, another person caught from MP

Navsari: Days after four workers were arrested in Madhya Pradesh in connection with the theft of old gold coins from a house they had rented for demolishing a house in Gujarat’s Navsari, a police officer said the neighboring state One more person has been arrested. Thursday. Officials said they recovered 41 gold coins worth Rs 19 lakh from a man detained in MP’s Alirajpur on Wednesday. On December 26, Navsari district police arrested four workers from Alirajpur with 199 gold coins, which they allegedly stole from a house that was being demolished instead of informing the authorities. Navsari Superintendent of Police Sushil Aggarwal said the coins bear the image of King George V and the Bazaar Street home of NRI Hawaben Ballia, who currently resides in Leicester, United Kingdom. “Our team arrested Mukesh Bhadiya of Alirajpur and recovered 41 coins worth Rs 19 lakh from a local jeweler who had given a loan of Rs 5.81 lakh to the accused against these coins. So far we have recovered 240 gold coins worth Rs 1.11 million. Coins have been recovered.” said the SP. The investigation began when Navsari police registered an FIR in October against contractor Sarfaraz Karadiya, who was appointed to demolish the house, and four workers who came from Alirajpur, based on a complaint by home owner Ballia. Karadiya and four activists were arrested in December. The five accused have been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 406 (criminal abuse of trust) and 114 (accomplice present at the place when the crime is committed), the SP said on January 1, adding that they committed theft. Have admitted to doing it. Coins while demolishing structures. Four policemen from Madhya Pradesh were also arrested after an FIR was lodged in the police commissionerate of Sondaba, Alirajpur, on the complaint of one of the arrested workers, who claimed to have stolen some gold coins.