Taking a serious note of the spurt in incidents of thefts in the city, the Police have started special police patrolling system during night in the Steel City. A search drive is also being conducted at several parts of the city.
Close on the heels of theft at posh Vijaya Heritage in Kadma on Wednesday, gang of burglars decamped with cash and gold ornaments worth over `2.5 lakh from a residential quarter in Old Baradwari under Sakchi police station area late last night.
The incident took place at Old Baradwari at the house of Rajesh Kumar Gupta, an accountant with Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNl) posted in Jamshedpur. Sources informed when Gupta was away on his duty and wife Seema was attending to a coaching class in Sakchi, the criminals entered into the house from backyard. They broke open locks and took away `50,000 cash and gold jewelries beside other electronic gadgets worth over `2.5 lakh. Gupta said that he was at the office till late in the night when the incident took place. “We were both shocked after the incident. We informed the police about the incident at about 12.15 am today and lodged an FIR,” said the BSNl official.
A team of police officials led by officer-in-charge, Sakchi police station inspected the scene in the wee hours today and inspected our house. “We are concerned over the prevailing situation. We have decided that everyday one police officer from the police station concerned would keep an eye on the movement of constables deployed at different places under the system,” a police official informed. These constables would keep an eye on suspicious elements moving in night and check them.
Chandan Jha, City, SP said that persons, whose movements were found to be suspicious, were detained in the last two months. Besides, the police have been keeping extra vigil in residential colonies not only during night but daytime too.
Officials said that constables on foot would be deployed at a stretch of every one km for patrolling. Several constables would be deployed for the purpose, besides patrolling by the local police.