On December 10, a thief took the keys lying inside an open window and let himself into a second floor house in Sector 1. He stole the laptop bag which contained a passport and a mobile phone and quickly escaped. A day later, the thief returns the passport by keeping it above the switchboard on the ground floor.
According to the FIR, the incident occurred between 6.30am and 7am at a house on the 2nd floor of 22nd Main, 7th Cross. Thirty-three-year-old software engineer Santosh Yadav was sleeping when the theft occurred. He lost a Lenovo laptop, his passport and his phone, a MotoX4.
“It appears like someone in the building itself must have stolen them,” Santosh told Residents Watch. He stays in a building that is home to 10 independent houses. “After the theft, I went around alerting a few neighbours in my building and stressed on the importance that the passport I lost was critical for me to get a visa and so on. Miraculously, the next day morning, the thief returns the passport which gives rise to suspicions that one of my neighbours could be the thief.”
The cops have been apprised of his suspicions and they are investigating this case of theft under Section 380 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
