Valuables worth Rs40 lakh were burgled from a house in Star Homes Colony under Shahpura police station area on Monday.
According to police, the victim, Mukesh Mangal, who is working as General Manager with Dainik Bhaskar, along with his family had gone to attend a marriage function in Jaipur on Sunday and when he returned on Tuesday morning, he found that the doors of his house were open and the locks were broken.
On entering the house he found that the house was ransacked and the valuables were missing. The victim hails from Jaipur and was recently transferred to Bhopal.
A complaint was lodged by the victim with the Shahpura police and after preliminary investigation a case was registered by the police.
In the complaint the victim has claimed that gold, silver and diamond jewellery and Rs45,000 in cash were found missing and the steel almirah in which the valuables were kept, was broken.
Surprisingly, the victim is new to the city and had arrived in the city last month only but the miscreants were aware of the exact location of the valuables and the other articles in the house were not disturbed.
Police said that the circumstantial evidences suggest that the miscreants were provided with the information about the valuables and regarding the whereabouts of the family.
The police have registered a case under section 457 and 380 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
locals and neighbours would be questioned during the investigation which would help in nabbing the miscreants.