Shahjehanabad police has booked four miscreants who attempted burglary at Reliable Colony in Sanjay Nagar late in the night on Monday.
Police said that the victim, Kailash Khatri, found that three of his neighbours were in the gallery while one was inside after he returned late in the night. The accused escaped from the spot. Later, the victim approached the police and lodged a complaint.
On the receipt of the information, a police team reached the spot and started investigation. The four escaped and remained absconding.
In the initial investigation, it was found that the victim left house at around 10 in the evening and when he returned late in the night he found that Yash, Prateek and Anees were in the gallery of his house while Sankalp was busy inside the house in burgling valuables and as soon as the three spotted victim they alerted fourth and accused escaped from the spot.
The accused are of the same locality due to which the victim identified the accused and revealed the names of the four accused.
Search for the absconding accused has been started. Police suspects that they planned to target house of having good amount of valuables and were aware of the victim’s whereabouts.
After the preliminary investigation, the police have registered a case under section 401 of the IPC. Police said that during the investigation other crimes and crime record of the accused would be investigated. The accused climbed till gallery and break the locks to enter the house.