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Unidentified person booked as heritage furniture stolen from Panjab University
In a similar case, the PU syndicate had last week demoted senior assistant Niraj Kumar for his involvement after a rickshaw puller was found taking heritage furniture out of the boys’ hostel without any gate pass in 2019.
Police have booked an unidentified person for allegedly stealing heritage wooden stool from MSc 2nd year’s laboratory at Panjab University (PU) on Tuesday.
The case was registered following the complaint of the chairperson department of anthropology, PU.
According to the police, the accused carried the stool on a bike as was seen by a few students.
Sector 11 police have registered a case under Sections 380 (theft) of the Indian Penal Code.
In a similar case, the PU syndicate had last week demoted senior assistant Niraj Kumar for his involvement after a rickshaw puller was found taking heritage furniture out of the boys’ hostel without any gate pass in 2019.
Notably, the cases of heritage furniture being auctioned in other countries are on rise.
In October last year, the court of judicial magistrate Puneet Mohinia let off six people, including two women, who were arrested on charges of stealing heritage furniture from a government college in 2016, after the prosecution failed to prove the allegations.
In January 2016, Vinod Kumar, a junior assistant at Government College of Arts, Sector 10, had complained to the police that the college watchman, who remained on duty from 12 am to 9 am, had checked in on the heritage furniture stored at the college at 11 pm on January 18, 2016, and found it safe.
But when he went for another round at 5.30 am on January 19, the lock of the warehouse was broken, and 15 heritage sofa chairs and a heritage wooden table were missing.
On receiving the complaint, police had registered a theft case and subsequently arrested the six scrap dealers, who they claimed were experts in hiding stolen goods.
