Madurai City Police have cracked a burglary case within a fortnight and recovered 815 grams of gold jewellery stolen from a lodge room in West Masi Street.
The police have arrested one Pinidi Ramesh Babu of Hyderabad and recovered the jewellery, worth about ₹46 lakh, from him. According to police, a gold trader, Jitendra Jain of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, had brought gold jewellery from Mumbai for selling them in Madurai. He had stayed in a lodge in West Masi Street.
He had left the valuables in the room and gone out on August 18. On his return to the lodge, he had found the gold jewellery missing. Based on his complaint, Thideer Nagar police had registered a case.
