COIMBATORE: Unidentified people stole 23 sovereigns of gold jewellery from a house at Akshaya Orbit Apartments in Sundaresan Iyer Layout on the Trichy Road here.The complainant, S Deepa, 52, attended a relative’s wedding on Oct 29 wearing gold jewellery. Around 7am on Oct 30, she returned home, removed the jewellery and kept it in a cupboard in her bedroom.Around 6.30pm on Nov 7, while checking the jewellery before leaving for her mother’s house, she found that 23 sovereigns of gold ornaments were missing. The stolen jewellery included eight bangles weighing 12 sovereigns, two pairs of earrings weighing four sovereigns, a bracelet weighing two sovereigns, a pair of cuffs weighing two sovereigns and a chain weighing three sovereigns.She lodged a complaint with the Race Course police on Sunday. Police registered a case under Section 305(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and began an investigation. Police visited the house and collected evidence. They have taken fingerprints and CCTV footage for further investigations.
