CHANDIGARH: The spate of burglaries rocking the city are showing no signs of abating. The intruders, if anything, are becoming bolder. Their latest target proves just that — a cop.
Sub-inspector Tejinder Singh was at work at the Sector 34 police station when his neighbour called him up at 3pm on Friday. The message was alarming: the main door of his house in Sector 42 was ajar. Singh’s wife and son were at Morinda. His daughter had gone for her tuition classes in Mohali.
The cop rushed back home to find rooms ransacked and around 25 tola gold and silver jewellery, which included two gold bangles, gold karas, five gold rings, two gold chains, two silver anklets and a silver kara, missing from an almirah. “I had left for the police station at 10am after locking the door. The call from my neighbour came as a bolt from blue,” Singh said.
Cops, a dog squad and a forensic team combed the rooms for fingerprints and other clues. Police registered a case, hoping footage from CCTV camera in the locality will hand them some key leads.
THEFT AT COAL DEPOT OFFICES
Burglars struck at two offices in a coal depot in Sector 28 in early hours of Friday, stealing Rs 24,000, telephone instruments, an amplifier, a speaker and 15 kg brass scrap. Lalit Mohan of Sector 28 went home after closing the offices on Thursday night. When he came at 8.30am on Friday, he noticed the theft. Burglars entered the offices by breaking the window panes.
INDL AREA SHOPS NOT SPARED TOO
Thefts were reported from two shops in Industrial Area, Phase I, on Friday. Electric wires and electronic items were stolen from one shop. Later, miscreants broke into a scrap dealer’s shop and stole scrap.A break-in took place at an automobile office too, but no items were missing.
