A city-based diamond merchant had alleged that a jeweller from Mumbai took diamond jewellery worth around Rs 1.89 crore from him but did not pay him, police said.
Dinesh Jain was arrested from Mumbai airport earlier this week and has been brought to Kolkata.
The complainant, who is the director of a diamond jewellery company with its office near Lee Road in Bhowanipore, had alleged that Jain, who is the proprietor of M/S Navkar Jewels, a company based in Mumbai, had allegedly induced him to enter into a business partnership, joint commissioner (crime) of Kolkata police, Sankha Subhra Chakrabarty, said on Thursday.
“The Kolkata-based company kept delivering diamond-encrusted jewellery on the basis of different orders placed by the Mumbai-based company between August and October last year in good faith. However, the company never paid for the jewellery,” Chakrabarty added.
The police said they received a complaint in March this year, alleging cheating and criminal breach of trust against Jain.
“The accused person promised to clear his dues and bought time. But when he did not make the payments, the director of the Kolkata-based company lodged a complaint with Bhowanipore police station,” said an officer in Lalbazar.
A case of cheating, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy was started against Jain. A team of officers from Bhowanipore police station was sent to Maharashtra to arrest him.
Jain was arrested at Mumbai airport on Monday.
He was produced before a local court and has been brought to Kolkata on transit remand.
Last month, in another case, the police arrested a woman employee of another jewellery chain for allegedly manipulating documents and stealing jewellery worth around Rs 85 lakh in Kolkata.
The company, which has two stores in Kolkata and one in Mumbai, had reported the fraud to the police after officials discovered that a large number of jewellery items that were taken out of the company’s head office on Lee Road for delivery to the other store in the city or to customers were missing.
Trafficked girls rescued from Kasba hotel
Two 17-year-old girls, who were allegedly trafficked, were rescued from a hotel in Kasba on Wednesday night, police said.
Three persons have been arrested in this connection.
“The anti-human trafficking unit of the detective department of Calcutta police rescued the girls, who were trafficked for sexual exploitation, during a raid,” an officer said.
The arrested persons have been identified as Seema Khatoon, 21, and Rausan Ara, 38 — the alleged traffickers — and Rakesh Mondal, assistant manager of the hotel.
The girls have been shifted to a home.
The accused were produced in the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court and remanded in police custody till June 28.