Valuables worth Rs 6 lakh were burgled in daylight from the house of a manager with Madhya Pradesh Dairy Federation, in Rachna Nagar, on Tuesday.
According to the Govindpura police, Basant Joshi who works with MP Dairy Federation as finance manager was at work and at around 5 pm, when his wife Sandhya Joshi returned home she found that the lock of the main door was broken and on entering the house she found that the house was ransacked.Sandhya informed her husband who subsequently intimated police about the incident. She works as district coordinator in Entrepreneurship Development Centre.
A complaint about the burglary was made by the victim with the Govindpura police.In the complaint the victim has claimed that no one was present in the house at the time of the incident. The husband-wife duo had gone to work while their 16-year-old son had gone to playground after locking the door and when Sandhya returned, she found that the valuables were missing.
The victim has claimed that Rs 45,000 in cash and gold jewelleries worth Rs 5.5 lakh were found missing.The police have registered a case under sections 454 and 380 of the IPC and have started investigation.Police suspect that the miscreants have been tipped off regarding the valuables and someone who lives in the same locality is involved in the burglary.
locals and neighbours and the domestic help and security guards of the locality would be questioned, said the police.