This is the third theft of electronic goods in HSR Layout where an FIR is registered. We are not even talking of the many cases that don’t get registered and just remain a simple police complaint.
Take this theft on December 13 at 6.40am on 24th Main, Sector 1. Since the door was open when the theft occurred, the HSR cops refused to file a police complaint. But Sushmita, the Sector 1 resident waited for five days and then went to the station, sat for two hours and did not leave the station until the complaint was filed.
She had a good reason for that. The CCTV in her building had the thief’s face captured on digital film. There is more likelihood of him being caught than others whose identity is completely unknown. And if this thief was caught before by the cops, he becomes a known offender who is far easier to catch.
“The maid had kept the door open and left at 6.46am,” Sushmita told Residents Watch. “By the time I got ready to go to office and shut the door, the thief had stolen my laptop (13-inch Macbook Air) and left. I didn’t know of the theft until I came back home as it’s my old personal laptop.”
Later, when she looked at the CCTV footage, she realised that the thief had nonchalantly walked in and tried to open every door leading up to the second floor where she lived. “He got lucky,” she says. “There are 10-12 independent houses in this building.”
The moral of the story? Keep all your doors shut and don’t keep anything next to a window. Instruct your maid to always lock the door after entering the house. And you go behind your maid or driver and lock the door when they leave. One small mistake can be quite costly.
