A former employee of Tanishq has been booked for cheating a Santacruz store of the top jewellery chain by using fake gold coins. The police said accused Vinit Soni, 40, and his nephew Prithvi Soni, 20, duped the store of Rs 54 lakh between December 2021 and January. Vinit allegedly used identical packaging, logo and designs to exchange gold-plated silver coins for gold jewellery. Prithvi was nabbed last week.

The Santacruz police said the mama-bhanja duo is from Navrangpura in Ahmedabad and faces cheating cases in that city and Surat as well. In Mumbai, they targeted a Tanishq store in Santacruz West on Linking Road.