A man and his gang of 11 men were arrested by the Hyderabad city police on Sunday, December 22, for dacoity and robbing gold worth Rs 1.2 crore from a gold merchant’s house in Hyderabad’s Domalguda region.

The arrests were made based on a complaint lodged by Ranjeet Ghorai, a native of West Bengal, who works as a gold merchant in the city.

The police recovered gold ornaments weighing 1.228 kg, silver ornaments weighing 616 grams brass weighing 2kg, Rs 2 lakh 90 thousand cash, one watch, a car, 13 mobile phones, and weapons including a lighter gun, a broad curve axe, 2 medium size axes, 2 knives, 6 big sickles from the arrested.