India, Oct. 17 -- Three days after two employees of a jewellery firm were robbed of 2.067 kg gold worth Rs.2.29 crore at gunpoint, the police investigation has revealed that one of the two employees stole the ornaments with the help of his aides and a colleague.

According to the police, the incident occurred at 3 pm on Monday when Shyamla Bhai Rabari and Jagdish Kerabhai Aala, employees of Masterchain and Jewels, a jewellery-making firm in Tamba Kata Market in south Mumbai, collected the ornaments from a hallmarking unit in Sewri and were on their way to their showroom on a motorcycle. When they reached Zakaria Bunder Road in Sewri, two unidentified men, on a two-wheeler, intercepted them.

"One of the accused started pulling the bag con...