An automobile showroom was targeted by miscreants and `2.5 lakh cash were burgled from Geeta Nagar under Chhola Mandir police station area on Sunday. Police said a total of `2.5 lakh cash were burgled from a locker of the showroom which deals with three wheelers.
SHO of Chhola Mandir Sudesh Tiwari said that the circumstantial evidence suggested that specific locker with the money was targeted which clearly indicated that the miscreant was very well aware.
The room in which the locker was kept was 5 ft in width and the hole to enter the room was made exactly after three feet long locker. The partners and employees working and earlier worked with the firm would be questioned. Around 24 employees have been found who would be questioned. The burglary was reported by a youth Kamal who lives on the upper floor of the showroom after he spotted that the wall has been broken. He was also questioned but nothing concrete was found, he added.
All the possibilities would be investigated as at the moment it is not possible to ascertain that the burglary has been committed by miscreant or the burglary has been committed due to internal feud between the partners said police.
In the initial investigation police found that the miscreants entered the showroom from the back side of the showroom by breaking the wall.
The police have registered a case under section 457 and 380 of the IPC. The other partners of the showroom are MS Prajapati, Vinita Prajapati, Ayaz Qureshi and Chandrashekhar Yadav.