Overview

• Commuter Amit Santra reported on July 11 that gold biscuits weighing 141.67g vanished from his bag while traveling between Bahadurgarh and Shadipur stations
• Police tracked Sonu Chand, 29, through metro and station CCTV and arrested him on July 23; officers say he has six previous theft cases
• A raid at Chand’s residence yielded Rs 3 lakh in cash that he allegedly admitted was the proceeds from selling the stolen gold
• Sumit Shinde, a gold refinery owner, was arrested and remanded while finance company employee Jai Prakash Tiwari was bound under legal orders as part of the probe
• Investigators are now focused on recovering the remaining stolen gold and identifying other members of the organized ring