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Thiruvananthapuram
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The city police are investigating the possible involvement of an inter-State gang in the burglary at a leading electronic shop on M.G. Road in Pulimood on Tuesday. The police officials are already in touch with their counterparts in Chennai and Bangalore to explore the possibility of a link with any of the criminal elements there. According to the investigating officers, the burglary, one of the biggest to have taken place in the city in recent years, has been carried out by a gang that is savvy about the working of electronic items.
Stolen goods
"The burglars have made away with only the most expensive and latest among the gadgets," said K.S. Suresh Kumar, circle inspector, Pettah, who is in charge of the investigation. The burglars, who gained entry into the shop by sawing the iron bar of a window located on the side of the building, escaped with 253 mobile phones, eight cameras and a CD player. "Every burglar has a peculiar style of operation. We are trying to find out whether any of our regular suspects share the modus operandi with that of the electronic shop burglar," Mr. Suresh Kumar said. The Criminal Intelligence Gazette, a manual of the police department, featured a burglar from Bihar whose style of operation was similar to that of the burglar in the present case, he said. Meanwhile, the City Police Commissioner, Balram Kumar Upadhyay, has cautioned people against buying mobile phones without chargers and information manuals from the grey market. "There is every possibility that the burglars would try to dispose these gadgets at the earliest," he said.
Chamber demand
The Thiruvananthapuram Chamber of Commerce has demanded intensification of police patrolling in the city at night in view of the alleged increase in burglary incidents. It urged the police to book the burglars involved in the theft in the showroom at Pulimood and to take steps to check such incidents in the future.
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