India, Dec. 18 -- The Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested a 49-year-old gold jewellery maker for allegedly being a member of a gang that staged fake Income Tax and police raids at jewellery-making workshops in central Delhi's Karol Bagh, stealing gold worth lakhs and erasing CCTV-DVR footage.

The accused, Sheikh Akram, was arrested on Sunday from a guest house in CR Park, South Delhi, after being on the run for over two weeks, said the police, adding that 130.16 grams of stolen gold and a Pulsar motorcycle used in the crime were recovered.

The case came to light on November 27 when the owner of a jewellery-making workshop in Karol Bagh approached Prasad Nagar police, alleging that five to six men had barged into his unit posing as IT off...