Reported by Bhaskar English
Attracted by the reels, he visited the showroom on 22 July, where a salesperson showed him a 9-carat gold ring. Jasmin paid ₹3,296 and bought the 3.69-gram ring under bill number 275. Later, on 31 July, he paid ₹92,700 at the same showroom and bought a 92.5% sterling silver kandora weighing 365.800 grams.
After becoming suspicious about the weight and quality of the jewellery, the young man had both items tested at the laboratories of Sainath Hallmarking Centre and Surat Hallmarking Centre in the Matavadi area.
The test reports revealed a shocking finding. The white-gold ring sold as 9-carat gold contained less than 1 carat of gold and was actually found to be silver with 85% to 91% purity. Meanwhile, the kandora sold as being 92.5% pure was found to contain only around 51% silver, with approximately 41% adulteration by inferior metals.
The jewellers also allegedly included the weight of the stones and diamonds set in the waist chain in the net silver weight and charged the customer ₹226 per gram, treating it as 100% pure silver.
Moreover, the bills issued by the trader showed incorrect dates instead of the actual purchase dates, despite the purchases having been made on different days.
