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Police caution against criminals in disguise

Staff Correspondent

DEHRA DUN: The police have advised residents not to allow persons posing as electricity meter readers, cooking gas mechanics, sales girls or boys inside their houses as they might be criminals in disguise.

Alarmed at the way two persons entered a house on Pritam Road here as meter readers and escaped with valuables after inflicting serious injuries on the housewife and her domestic help on Monday, the officials said that the general innocence of housewives to give out details of the family to persons claiming to be conducting a survey could prove dangerous. "One should not allow any unknown person inside the house or give him or her any details which could be used as intelligence by gangsters," they said.

Members of a gang had recently looted over Rs. 2 lakhs from a bank in Indira Nagar here and valuables worth over Rs. 10 lakhs from a house in neighbouring Vasant Vihar where top bureaucrats live. A social worker attributed the sudden spurt in burglaries and loot to criminals from neighbouring States who were finding Dehra Dun a safe place to operate in.

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