Chennai: Police booked a 35-year-old man from Nepal who fled after misappropriating gold worth 13.4 lakh from a T Nagar jewellery shop. Police said Ramesh Bahadur worked for Lalit Kumar, 39, who has runs a shop on South Usman Road, for seven years. Kumar gave four gold bars to Bahadur and Deepika on Friday and asked them to take it to a jewellery shop in Sowcarpet for sale. Bahadur sold the gold and collected the money. He, however, handed over only 32.8 lakh, which was the value of only three bars. En route to the police station, Bahadur escaped. Hunt is on for the suspect.
