Three unknown persons allegedly committed a theft at a temple in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh area on early hours of Thursday.
According to a senior police official, on Thursday at 6.54 am, police received information regarding burglary from a temple’s ‘daanpatra’ at Aggarwal Bhawan, road number 10 near SD Public School, East Punjabi Bagh following which a police team was dispatched for the spot.
"During enquiry, it was found that three unknown persons with muffled faces entered temple premises from back side of the Aggarwal Bhawan. They broke open the daanpatra and burgled Aggarwal Bagchi Trust Mandir.
They took an unknown amount of cash between 1 AM to 1.30 AM," said the senior police official.
The guard of the temple, Santlal Tiwari (51), was present there at that time, but he didn’t notice anything unusual. Incident was first noticed by priest Jai Bhagwan Sharma around 5.30 AM when he opened the temple, police said. A case has been registered and investigation is underway, policesaid.