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Rs. 40 lakh worth ornaments looted

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JUNE 26. Thieves broke into a jewellery shop on D.V.G. Road in Basavanagudi police station limits early on Saturday and made away with gold ornaments worth about Rs. 40 lakh.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Ramasubba, said the thieves entered Singri Jewellers by breaking open two locks of the rolling shutters.

They took away the gold ornaments that were in the counter and showcases.

The proprietor had left the main lock of the rolling shutters open, he said.

The theft is said to have occurred around 2 a.m. While Mr. Ramasubba said the value of the stolen gold ornaments was yet to be estimated, Mahadeshwara, the proprietor of the shop, told presspersons who visited the scene of crime that jewellery worth about Rs. 40 lakh had been missing.

Sources said after the thieves entered the shop, the burglar alarm started ringing and they smashed the equipment.

The security agency to which the alarm is connected reportedly alerted Mr. Mahadeshwara, a resident of Thyagarajanagar, but he reportedly did not respond, sources said.

Mr. Ramasubba said a watchman who guards Singri Jewellers and a few others shops on D.V.G. Road had suffered injuries. "The watchman is unable to narrate what happened. We have sent him for medical examination," Mr. Ramasubba said.

It is also said that the thieves made the watchman consume liquor, and after he fell asleep, they broke into the shop.

The Basavanagudi police have registered a case.

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