The Charkop police arrested two security guards from Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly stealing gold jewellery worth over Rs 1.25 crore from a jewellery manufacturing unit at the government industrial estate in Charkop, Kandivli West. A third accused is absconding.

The arrested accused, Safir Chaudhary and Bittu alias Waqar Ahmad Nazir Hussain, had been working at the workshop for the past six months. Officers told mid-day that Chaudhary was the alleged mastermind behind the theft. They were arrested on May 23 with help from the Poonch police and brought to Mumbai on transit remand on Tuesday night. The duo was produced before the Borivli Metropolitan Magistrate court on Wednesday.