A house was burgled in Sector 3 on Monday, December 10. Cash and gold jewellery was stolen during daytime by breaking the door lock. The incident occurred between 1.20pm and 1.50pm on 18th C Main, 3rd floor. Dr Shreyaa (27 years) stays with her husband Vivek Prashant. On the day of the robbery, both had left home at 11am to a hospital.
Later, the husband left for Patna on work while Shreyaa returned home at 5pm. She was horrified to see that the front door was ajar and the thief had broken into her home. The cupboard was open and all her gold jewellery worth Rs 14-15 lakh and Rs 25000 cash had vanished. The cops have registered the case under two sections for theft (IPC 380) and trespassing (IPC 454).
Shreyaa was married in June and had come to stay in HSR in July this year. Her expensive wedding jewellery is not with her anymore. The CCTV installed on the ground floor reveals a confusing scenario. The thief, wearing a helmet, opens the door of the house on the ground floor and enters it. In a minute, he is out of it and locks the door and takes the stairs to reach Shreyaa’s third floor independent house. The owner of the ground floor did not report any missing valuable.
He is later seen carrying a pillow from Shreyaa’s house which is where all the stolen jewellery could be hidden. What’s confusing is that the door doesn’t appear to be forced open. Clearly, the thief either had a duplicate key or knew how to pick locks. However, the CCTV footage shows that the thief came back with a tool to go upstairs. That is when he could have unhinged the lock from the inside, just to confuse the cops investigating the case. Husband Vivek has another theory: “It appears that he has a duplicate key to my house and this looks like an inside job. The damage to the lock is to distract us.”