Unknown criminals decamped with gold ornaments worth over Rs 7 lakh from a jewelry shop near Kagalnagar market under Sonari police station area in the wee hours of Monday.
Owner of the jewellery shop, Uday Prasad informed the police, following which the officer-in-charge, Sonari police station, Anuj Kumar inspected the spot.
“I was shocked to see the shelves of the shops vacant and ornaments on display missing. Then only I realised that there must have been a burglary,” said Prasad.
“I was not very concerned about any theft or burglary at the jewelry shop as it is located on the residential premises of a house. But still the criminals succeeded in committing the burglary,” said the shop owner.
Vishnu Dev, the owner of the house which accommodated the jewellery shop expressed his unawareness of any sound past midnight. Moreover, there was no night-watchman around.
OC, Sonari police station, Anuj Kumar confirmed about the burglary at the jewelley shop near Kagalnagar in Sonari. “The probe is on and we are confident to nab the culprits. We have taken the images of the CCTV footage of the burglary. We will try to detect the case on the basis of the footage of the surveillance cameras,” the OC, Sonari said.