T’puram: The investigation into the alleged gold pawn fraud linked to two suicides is likely to be handed over to the district crime branch as the number of complaints against the prime accused continues to rise.Sources said the addition of abetment to suicide charges, along with financial fraud, has strengthened the case for transferring the…
T’puram: The 70-sovereign gold pawn fraud case in the state capital took a turn for the worse when one more woman, who had attempted suicide, breathed her last on Monday. Aishwarya (32) of Venganoor, an employee of a private gold loan firm, succumbed while undergoing treatment at medical college hospital.Her colleague Anju (28), who consumed…
T’puram: Vizhinjam police on Sunday arrested a 53-year-old woman accused of cheating two employees of a private finance company by misappropriating gold ornaments entrusted to her, a fraud that investigators say pushed the women into crippling debt and led to last week’s suicide attempt in which one of them died.The accused, Sindhu Kumari of Venganoor,…
