A week has passed since the daring heist at the Nizams’ Museum in Hyderabad in which two thieves burgled the place in Purani Haveli palace in old Hyderabad and vanished with two priceless antiques of gold.
As many as 15 teams of Hyderabad police were continuing their search for the gold tiffin box and a cold tea cup belonging to the last Nizam Mira Osman Ali Khan. Experts put the value at Rs 50 crore.
Police officials associated with the investigation say that they could not make much progress as the only clue they could find was a blurry footage from a CCTV camera outside the museum. “The probe is now focused on a particular model of pulsar motor cycle which the perpetrators of the crime rode”, a police official said. Only silver lining was that very few people have reportedly bought that model of the bike and as it was without a registration plate it could be a newly purchased vehicle. Police could not find any record of complaint of theft of any such bike.
Two youth entered the museum on the first floor of the building from another adjacent building through ventilator on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday last and took away the valuable. The finger prints lifted from the scene by the clues team were also not much of a help.