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It is a four-year-old headache for Chengalpattu East police. They still haven't been able to solve the mystery of the `bureau pulling' burglar/burglars, with the unique modus operandi defying their best efforts to crack the problem. Consider this: Besides diamonds and cash, 1,800 sovereigns of gold jewellery had been stolen in about 100 reported incidents. The modus operandi is same: the burglars manage to pull the bureaus kept near windows and break into them. Equally astonishing is the fact that most of the burglaries were reported from the Madipakkam sub-division of the police district. The way it works is quite simple. After presumably identifying the target, the burglars remove a portion of the window and release the lock. A rope is then looped round the bureau to pull it close to the window. They get the bureau open, and remove the valuables. It takes just a half-an-hour for them to complete the job. G. Tiripura Sundari, who lost property worth Rs. 1 lakh in Nanganallur, recalled that on January 12, 2002, when she came out in the morning to clean the entrance of her house, she noticed a couple of her jewel boxes strewn around outside the window. When she walked down further, she saw a few papers kept in the bureau on the side portion of her flat complex. She said the bureau was kept on the eastern side of the room and the windows were never kept open. "When I saw the papers outside the window, I also noticed a hole in the window. Then I realised that a part of it had been removed through which the window locks were opened. Using a rope, the bureau was pulled to the northern side close to the window and the valuables were removed." The police asked Mrs. Sundari and her husband N. Ganapathy Subramanian to leave their fingerprints with the experts. But, till date the stolen property had not been traced, she said. "Initially, we called the police everyday and checked with them about the progress in the case. But, after sometime we lost hope, and now it will be rather difficult for me to even identify my stolen property." A number of theories have been advanced as to why these offences take place in residential areas under the Madipakkam, Adambakkam and Pazhavanthangal police station limits. Lack of inter-personal communication among residents coupled with their soft nature seemed to have led to an increase in the number of cases, a resident pointed out. When the offences came to light initially, only six cases were reported. But, police had not taken serious note of that, another resident charged. Yet another thing was that most of the offences took place whenever the police were out on bandobust duty, a senior officer conceded. District Superintendent of Police Sandeep Mittal said the police were tracking known dacoits and their movements. Police have also increased surveillance in vulnerable areasand expanded their vigil all over the district. The police are hopeful that they will bust the gang soon, as a group of energetic sub-inspectors has been put on the case.
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