It seems ‘burglars’ days out’ in the Steel City these days. Close on the heels of a theft in the house of a Tata Main Hospital doctor in Northern Town, another doctor fell victim to burglars.
Thieves decamped with gold ornaments and other valuables from house of Amol Patro, a senior surgeon at the Tata Main Hospital on Baluchela Road in Sonari.The doctor along with his family had been to Kashmir and when they returned home on Thursday, found the grill of the house broken and so were the locks. After initial probe, the doctor found burglars had decamped with ornaments and a gold medal, which were missing from the almirah.
The surgeon informed the Sonari police, soon after which a team of police officials led by the officer-in-charge, Sonari police station Animesh Gupta arrived at the spot to probe the incident.Gupta also called in a dog squad and also a fingerprint expert for pressing into service.The officer-in-charge said as per the initial investigation the criminals seem were familiar with the doctor's house.
"The burglars had targeted only the almirahs kept in the bedroom. They took along two gold chain, gold medal and a pearl necklace. There were computers and camera and but they did not touch them," said the police officer.Gupta said that the burglars have cut in all eight locks and a portion of the grill at the veranda before entering into the house for committing the burglary. He said there was more than one CCTV cameras in the house, but the doctor had switched them off before leaving for the Kashmir trip.
The doctor claimed that the total cost of the stolen goods was worth over Rs4 lakh. “I fail to understand how come in densely-populated locality thieves dared to enter my house. The criminals must have watched the house and carried out study of the house before committing the theft,” said Patro.
It may be recalled that the thieves had on May 15, decamped with gold ornaments worth over Rs15 lakh from the house of Sunil Kumar at Northern Town. In this connection, the police had registered a case of theft on the FIR lodged by Kumar, who is a senior doctor in Tata Main Hospital and have also arrested one person, but the stolen goods are yet to be recovered.