Search on for man who went missing with 1kg gold

Coimbatore: The city police are on a lookout for a goldsmith who went missing with 1kg gold bars from Sukrawarpet market on Tuesday.
For the past three years, Prabhu, the accused from Virudhunagar district, had been working with Sivakumar’s gold workshop in Sukrawarpet. Sivakumar would obtain gold bars from jewellery shops in the district and turn them into ornaments.A few weeks ago, owner of a jewellery shop in Gandhipuram had approached Sivakumar asking him to make jewellery as per selected design. He had handed over 1kg f gold bars to him, said a police official. Sivakumar in turn gave the gold bars to Prabhu to start the work.
As Prabhu did not return with the ornaments, Sivakumar filed a police complaint at Rathinapuri. A hunt is on.
In another incident, unidentified people broke into a house and stole 25 sovereigns of gold ornaments near Velliangadu in Tirupur. The complainant, Aravind Kumar, 27, had left for his farmhouse along with his family members on Saturday. When he returned on Tuesday morning, he noticed that the backdoor of his house was damaged and gold jewels kept in the cupboard were missing. tnn