Cash, jewellery stolen from Gurugram’s Sector 40 residence

The robbery took place when the house was empty from February 5 to February 17 as the siblings had gone to Jaipur

Unidentified suspects were booked for allegedly stealing jewellery and cash worth several lakhs from the residence of two elderly sisters living together in Sector-40, police said on Monday.

According to the police, the suspects decamped with gold jewellery weighing upto 70-75 grams, silver items which included 104 silver coins, two pairs of anklets, an idol weighing 200 grams and cash to the tune of ₹5.7 lakh. (Representational image)

The robbery took place when the house was empty from February 5 to February 17 as the siblings had gone to Jaipur, police officials said.

Investigators said that the matter came to light when Rita Diwan and her younger sister Nira Diwan, both aged between 65-70 years, returned home on Saturday evening to find their entire house ransacked.

According to the police, the suspects decamped with gold jewellery weighing upto 70-75 grams, silver items which included 104 silver coins, two pairs of anklets, an idol weighing 200 grams and cash to the tune of ₹5.7 lakh.

A senior police officer said that the suspects had broken an iron grille on the rear side of the ground floor of the double-storey house owned by the sisters to enter.

“No CCTV camera was installed in the house. Neither were there any in the vicinity due to which no clue about the suspects was available. We are trying to get footage of a CCTV installed at least 200 metres away from the spot to see if any suspicious movement was recorded in it,” he said.

Inspector Manoj Verma, station house officer of Sector-40 police station, said they were investigating the matter.

Based on the younger sister’s complaint, a FIR was registered against unidentified suspects under sections 380 (theft from dwelling house) and 454 (lurking house-trespass or house-breaking at night) of the Indian Penal Code at Sector-40 police station on Saturday.