Chennai: Rs 2 lakh gold teeth stolen from clinic

Chennai: This is one gold heist which might have left patients of a dental clinic with a hole in their pockets had they paid an advance and for an extended while, their dental cavities. About 50 grams of gold metal used to make a dental prosthesis, commonly known as gold teeth was stolen from a dental clinic on 100 feet road near Ashok Nagar.

Police on Friday arrested a 22-year-old - staffer at the dental clinic for stealing the yellow metal worth Rs 2 lakh. Police sources said that the management found about the missing gold metal during an internal audit. Alarmed, the manager approached the Ashok Nagar police with a complaint.

Police personnel headed by inspector (crime) Sankar perused the CCTV footages in the clinic and after interrogating the staff zeroed in on the person who stole the gold. From the beginning, the suspicion was on one of the staff, as they know where the gold is kept.

"One of the office assistants had stolen the gold over a period of time. He claimed that he indulged in stealing to meet the financial requirements of his family and was under the assumption that his acts won't be found out," an investigating officer said.

The staffer, Ashok Kumar (22), who stole the gold is a resident of Madurasamy Mada Street in Thiru vi ka Nagar near Perambur. He has been working in the clinic for less than a year, police sources said. Police recovered the 50-gram gold metal worth Rs 2 lakh from him. Ashok Kumar was produced before a magistrate and remanded in judicial custody.