Mumbai, Oct 4 (PTI) A man was arrested for allegedly duping his employer by appropriating gold coins worth Rs 5.72 crore using forged purchase orders and documents, a Mumbai police official said on Saturday.

The Vanrai police station identified the accused as Sunil Gupta, who was arrested on Wednesday.

"Gupta worked at a firm making corporate gift items for the past two years and had been given the power to handle financial transactions. He had access to the company's email accounts etc. He told his employer and complainant Naresh Jain that a pharmaceutical company had placed an order for gold coins for corporate gifting," the official said.

"For this, Jain booked 3.4 kilograms of gold worth Rs 2.46 crore, which he handed over to Gupta for delivery. Gupta later submitted documents, incl

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