PANJIM: The Panjim police have arrested a 24-year-old for stealing gold ornaments valued approx at Rs 30 lakh from a wedding venue in Miramar last week. His accomplice, a minor boy who is seen on the CCTV footage decamping with the bag containing the valuables, is however absconding.
Savant Sisodia, a native of Madhya Pradesh, was caught from Surat and brought to Goa on Monday. He has been remanded to 5 days police custody and the stolen items are yet to be recovered.
At the function in Miramar, the minor boy, whose identity is still a mystery to the police, is supposedly an uninvited guest. In the CCTV footage, the police found that the boy loiters around the unattended bag containing the ornaments and soon walks out with it as the host families and attendees remain busy. “The minor and the main accused were seated together at the function until they find an appropriate time to decamp with the valuables. We managed to get the identity of Sisodia and traced him at Surat while his accomplice is still missing,” an officer said.
The victim family, the officer said, had carried the gold at the wedding venue as they did not want to leave the valuables in their locked house fearing theft. Police suspect that the two are a part of an organised gang that commits theft at weddings.
