THIEVES DECAMPED with cash and jewellery worth around Rs 2 lakh from the house of a chartered accountant at Srinagar Annex last night.
The MIG police received information this morning that theft had taken place at 22-A Srinagar Annex, owned by Anand Sethia. The TI Basant Naik and the forensic team reached there. Sethia told them that they discovered the theft in the morning and found that the door leading to the roof terrace was open.
The thieves had most probably gained entry from there, after breaking the grill by its side. He said the keys of the almirah were kept in a key rack from where the thieves took the keys and opened the almirahs where the cash and jewellery were kept.
At the time of the theft the entire family was in the house. Sethia and his wife were sleeping in one room and his two daughters in the other room.
The police and the forensic team are finding it difficult to believe that thieves actually had entered the house. Forensic experts said that though the grill by the side of the roof door was broken, it appears that it was cut from inside, and not from outside.
Also the break was no more than three inches, big enough for only a finger to pass through. No footprints or fingerprints were found, even though there was dust all around. After taking out the jewellery box from the almirah, they had taken it to another room and put everything in neat order. Police are finding this act of the thieves strange.
{{/usCountry}}Also the break was no more than three inches, big enough for only a finger to pass through. No footprints or fingerprints were found, even though there was dust all around. After taking out the jewellery box from the almirah, they had taken it to another room and put everything in neat order. Police are finding this act of the thieves strange.
{{/usCountry}}Case of cheating
THE MG Road police have registered a case of cheating against an unknown person on the basis of a complaint by a Vijay Kumar Dube, who is a legal consultant at the State Bank of Indore, District Court branch, where the incident took place.
In the complaint, the bank said that one of their account holders Gajkeshwar said that someone had fraudulently withdrawn Rs 2.5 lakh between May 17 and June 6 this year.
On separate days the person withdrew the amount, sometimes Rs 50,000 and sometimes he withdrew Rs 10,000. The cheating was discovered when the account holder Gajkeshwar came to the bank to withdraw money and discovered the money missing from his account.
Theft in shops
THIEVES BROKE the locks of a number of shops and took away cash and goods in Dwarkapuri area last night. The theft was discovered in the morning when the owners came and found the locks broken.
The thieves had targeted Kandhari Dresses, Radhaswami Collection, a godown owned by Jai Wagjai, grocery store Jai Mata
Traders. The traders were angry with the police as they felt that police were not doing enough to stop these thefts.