Three days after 80-90 Rolex watches worth Rs8 crore to Rs9 crore were stolen from a high-end showroom in the heart of the national Capital, investigators are still groping in the dark without any definitive leads. Investigators suspect the involvement of the insiders as locks were not broken. The thieves had used keys to steal the watches. Police is also baffled by the fact that the thieves did not touch gold jewellery that was lying there.
The theft had taken place on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday at Cooke & Kelvey showroom, the official Rolex retailer situated in Scindia House of Connaught Place area. Police had registered a case of theft at Barakhamba police station in this regard. “There is no definitive lead in this matter. This is a priority case for us and an inspector has been asked to investigate it thoroughly. We are probing it from all possible angles,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) SBS Tyagi. lack of CCTV cameras at the showroom has hampered police investigation. Police has now sought CCTV footage from a neighbouring jewellery showroom to examine it and see whether any suspects are seen it or not. “The shutters were not broken from anywhere. It seems that a spade was inserted as a lever beneath the shutter of the showroom and it was lifted to provide entry to a child or a very thin person who carried out the robbery. Either there is a highly professional gang which carried out the heist with clinical precision or there is an insider involved,” said Tyagi.