Throughout a latest vehicle-checking operation forward of the forthcoming Maharashtra Meeting elections, a Static Surveillance Group (SST) discovered gold and silver ornaments price Rs 1.6 crore in a non-public automobile on the Rajiv Gandhi Bridge in Pune’s Aundh.
Himmat Jadhav, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Pune metropolis, mentioned the ornaments have been seized from one Yogesh Kumar Parmar in a courier automobile.
The seized consignment included 4 kilogram of silver price Rs 4,16,632 and a pair of.511 kilogram of gold estimated at Rs 1,57,96,124. The seized valuables have been handed over to the Earnings Tax and the GST division for additional investigation, the police mentioned.
“Prima-facie inquiry revealed that the ornaments have been being taken to totally different jewellers in Pune, Kolhapur, Ahilya Nagar, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar by courier,” mentioned Jadhav.
Within the run-up to the upcoming elections, the police have arrange 26 SST factors to test automobiles at totally different places in Pune metropolis.
On October 25, an SST discovered gold ornaments price Rs 138 crore in a non-public van at Padmavati on the Pune-Satara Highway.
Police sources mentioned that an inquiry into this case had revealed that the van belonged to a non-public logistic firm that has been legally transporting gold, and diamond ornaments to totally different jewellers.
Amit Modak, CEO, P N Gadgil and Sons, a famend jewelry firm in Pune, had then launched an announcement clarifying that the gold was being transported by a secured logistic service to varied jewellers.
The 288-member Maharashtra Meeting will go to the polls on November 20 and the counting is scheduled to be held on November 23.
Click on right here to hitch Specific Pune WhatsApp channel and get a curated listing of our tales
