A shop in North Delhi’s Sadar Bazar area was burgled and flowers worth about Rs16 lakh stolen, police said on Friday. Police registered and case collected footage from the CCTV cameras installed near the shop to get clues about the burglars. The incident was reported on Monday morning after the police received a call from Sunder lal, owner of the flower shop at Sadar Bazar informing that a theft has taken place.
lal told police that when he reached the shop in the morning, he found the locks were broken and 230 cartons of flowers containing different varieties of flowers missing from his shop. He said the stolen flowers weight around 25 kilograms, were kept for delivery for the day. He estimated the cost of flowers running to about Rs16 lakh. Police said that they suspect involvement of an insider in the incident. They have also constituted teams in connection with the matter and questioned employees and workers in the neighbouring shops.