Mumbai Crime: Man held for duping jewellers in city

The Goregaon police busted a gang busted for duping jewellry shop owners by putting highvalue hallmark stamps on lowvalue gold jewelryAccording to the cops the gang members allegedly sold gold ornaments of lowvalue cost by using highvalue hallmark stickers to duped jewellry shop owners across the countryOne of the gang members was caught raid handed on Tuesday in Goregaon West and later arrested under various sections of IPC including cheatingThe arrested accused has been identified as Vijay Kumar Jaintilal Rathod 54 The police recovered a lowvalue gold chain of about 14500 grams from his possession The gold chain recovered was actually 65carat gold but the hallmark on the hook was printed 22 carats 916 hallmarks said an officer from Goregaon police stationOn Tuesday the accused went to sell the gold chain at ldquoVidhata Jewellery shoprdquo located on station road Goregaon westWhen the complaint Rameshchandra Rathod checked the hallmark mark on the chain hook by the magnifying glass it was showing 916 hallmarks printed As he doubted seeing the other parts of the gold chain he checked the carat of the gold It has been revealed the rest parts of the chain was lowvalue gold of just 65 caratsSimilar kind of incidents has occurred in past in Goregaon and other parts of the city several jewelry shop owners were aware of such kind of fraud the complaint also had listened informed others and also association members who alerted the police immediately the officer addedUnder the guidance and supervision of senior inspector Datattre Thopte on duty officer PSI Dayanand Patil registered the case and booked accused Rathod later arrested him API Sudarshan Patil has begun the investigation accused Rathod hailed from RajkotAlso Read Mumbai Crime Software engineer loses over Rs 150 lakh to cyber fraudDuring the interrogation it has been appearing that he has been doing the jewelry business for years He brought jewelry from Rajkot and sold it in Mumbai and other cities of the countryThe accused told the police that he worked for a jewelry maker in RajkotWe suspect that Rathod and others people in this gang know everything yet they sell and cheat people by claiming lowvalue gold as high value and pure Many other jewelers have come forward who had been cheated by Rathod and his gang members in the past time said another officerWe suspect that a fake gold jewelrymaking factory is running in Rajkot where people are being cheated by selling lowvalue gold across India in the name of high value by stamping it with a 916 hallmark gold sign added the police officerRathod was arrested and he was produced before the Borivli Metropolitan Magistrate court today and remanded in police custody the officer added