Pune: The Cantonment police on Wednesday recovered two diamond-studded finger rings and some melted gold during a search at the Camp store of the jeweller arrested in the theft of ornaments and valuables worth Rs2.78 crore from the locker of a food processing firm's general manager at the Punjab National Bank 's branch on M G Road between Aug 13 and 20. "We are in the process of determining the value of the recovered items.
We will verify all the recovered jewellery and melted gold with the complainant," senior inspector Girish Digavkar of the Cantonment police said. The police on Tuesday arrested a senior manager of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch and the jeweller, besides filing a case of theft, misappropriation, criminal breach of trust and common intention, among other charges, against five others, including a 73-year-old customer accused of taking away the ornaments after mistaking the complainant, Yash Kapoor's locker for his own because of similar-reading locker numbers. Digavkar said, "The elderly man, who has been questioned, hardly recalls what all he had picked up from the locker of Kapoor.
We will continue to question him in the case." Kapoor had reported the theft to the police soon after the incident came to light on Sept 6. The police formally registered an FIR on Monday night after verification of his complaint application.
A PNB spokesperson said a departmental enquiry had been initiated after it was found that an employee of the bank mistakenly trigger.