Hubballi: A group posing as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials took away gold jewellery worth more than Rs 3 crore in Karnataka's Hubballi.

According to the complaint, a team of five claiming to be ED officers intercepted a Kerala-based jewellery trader near Chennamma Circle on Neeligin Road on November 20 and made away with 2.942 kg of gold jewellery and Rs 2 lakh in cash.

The victim, Sudeen, is a jewellery merchant who routinely carries ornaments to various jewellery stores to take orders from them. On November 15, he had arrived from Mangaluru to Belagavi with assorted jewellery—including chains, bracelets, rings, earrings, necklaces, mangalsutras, lockets and bangles—worth Rs 3.2 crore. He had taken orders from shops in Belagavi, Dharwad and Hubballi and was staying at a hotel op

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