Mumbai-based jeweller Anil Shantilal Semlani (33), who operates from Zaveri Bazar, had lodged a police complaint, after his employee tasked with ferrying the gold told him that some persons had robbed him during the train journey at Lonavala.u00a0

Police said they made the breakthrough after the employee broke down during investigations, and confessed to cooking up a fake robbery story to repay a debt taken from one of the arrested accused.