Representative image of gold jewellery.
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Bengaluru: The Halasuru Gate police have arrested a father-son duo for allegedly cheating a city-based jeweller of Rs 1.60 crore.
The arrested are Rajendra Kumar and his son Jeevan, both natives of Rajasthan.
A jeweller from Nagarthpet filed a complaint on September 8, stating that between July 28 and September 4, the two had taken gold ornaments from him to sell for a share in the profit. However, the duo neither returned the ornaments nor paid the sale proceeds.
The Halasuru Gate police registered a case and arrested the two on October 28 from their house in Nehru Nagar, Sheshadripuram.
Police said both confessed during interrogation.
"During sustained interrogation, the suspects revealed that they had melted the gold ornaments taken from the complainant and converted them into a gold bar, which they had kept at their residence. Acting on this information, police searched their house and seized a 1.3 kg gold bar, valued at Rs 1.60 crore,” the police said in a statement, adding that the suspects have been remanded to judicial custody.