Thieves strike at five drug stores
THIEVES STRUCK at five drug stores during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday on Birhana Road and decamped with cash over Rs 8 lakh under the Collector Ganj police station. They entered the shops by break opening the locks of four and damaged the shutter of the fifth shop. Agitated traders put up a blockade this morning. Meanwhile, BJP legislator Salil Vishnoi and senior party leader Shyam Bihari Misra reached the spot.
THIEVES STRUCK at five drug stores during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday on Birhana Road and decamped with cash over Rs 8 lakh under the Collector Ganj police station. They entered the shops by break opening the locks of four and damaged the shutter of the fifth shop.
Agitated traders put up a blockade this morning. Meanwhile, BJP legislator Salil Vishnoi and senior party leader Shyam Bihari Misra reached the spot. They met the DIG and accused the police o f their involvement in the thefts. The police have arrested the relatives of the four guards, who were deployed at the market and are missing after the incident, and are questioning them.
Subodh Awasthi, who owns a shop at the Maruti Market on Birhana road, was shocked to find the locks of his shop broken this morning. He informed that about two lakh rupees, kept in the lockers, were missing. He informed about the incident to general secretary of Vyapar Mandal Rajendra Saini, who immediately reached the spot.
When they checked the other shops in the area, they found locks of four other shops broken. Vishal Bansal’s Agrasen Medicos, Sarvesh Goyal’s Radhe Pharma, Tarun Sharma’s Indira Pharma and Rajendra Sharma’s Prem Trading Company were the other shops where the thieves struck.
After the news spread, fear and panic gripped the shop owners of the area. Dozens of traders closed their shops and started shouting slogans against the police. When Rajendra Saini informed the police that four Nepali guards- Ganesh, Puran, Nar Bahadur and Bahadur, who guarded the shops, were missing, the police raided their houses, only to find them absconding.