Among the arrestees are the deputy manager, the operations manager and the service assistant of the said state bank.

The trio is accused of stealing 873g of pawned gold jewellery from the depository of the bank.

They have used the depository’s keys, which were in their possession, to steal the gold jewellery on three occasions.

 A CID team initiated probes into the incident after receiving a complaint about several pieces of gold jewellery that had gone missing from the depository of the bank.

 An individual, upon visiting the bank to retrieve the gold jewellery he had pawned in November last year, had learned that the items were, in fact, missing. After conducting an internal inspection, the bank’s employees realized that 13 packets of gold jewellery have disappeared from the depository.

The bank’s management subsequently suspended the duties of the deputy manager over the incident. During the interrogations, he had confessed that two other female employees – an operations manager and a service assistant – too were complicit in the theft. They were later placed under arrest by the CID investigators.