MUMBAI, June 26 -- A 19-year-old man, his father and a friend were arrested from Gujarat on Tuesday for pulling off a jewellery heist from the accused's company guest house in Borivali on Friday. The police said the stolen jewellery was worth Rs.13.34 crore. The arrested accused are identified as Jignesh Kuchdia, his father Nathabhai Kuchdia, 50, and Jignesh's friend Yash Jivanhai, 23. All three of them are residents of Junagadh in Gujarat. According to police, Nathabhai, the mastermind behind the heist, allegedly urged his son to steal the ornaments and have Jivanhai hide the booty. Jignesh works for JP Export Gold and Diamond, a Rajkot-based gold trading firm. In the first week of June, he left on a work trip with his senior Ajay Ghagda, 27, a sales executive to sell goods in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. After the trip, the two reached the company's flat in Borivali (West) on June 20, said a police officer. Around 1.45pm, when Ghagda went to the bathroom, Jignesh seized the opportunity to rob and allegedly made away with gold ornaments in two bags. When Ghagda realised what happened, he approached the MHB Colony police station and a case was registered under Section 306 (theft committed by a servant against employer's property) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. Investigations revealed that after fleeing with the gold, his father and friend picked up Jignesh in a getaway car they drove down from Gujarat for the heist. The trio escaped with the stolen jewellery in the same Mahindra Thar. "Jignesh's call detail records showed he was in constant contact with his father that day," said the officer. The police dispatched special teams to potential escape routes, such as the railway lines, roads, and airports, to nab the accused, said Anand Bhoite, deputy commissioner of police (Zone 11). They traced the accused's route from the crime scene to Dahisar Check Naka, Palghar to Vapi Toll Naka, Pithadiya Toll Naka, and Junagadh in Gujarat. "We pursued the vehicle and detained his friend with the car. After questioning Yash, we also detained Jignesh from Rajkot. It turns out that Nathabhai was at his residence in Junagadh. A detection team traced him and arrested him on Tuesday. They recovered 13 kg gold. The trio was then brought to Mumbai and produced before the Borivali metropolitan nagistrate court and remanded to police custody for four days. Nathabhai also has a cheating case against him at the Junagadh police station, said another officer....