NEW DELHI: Burglars struck at two adjoining houses and decamped with jewellery worth lakhs at Saraswati Vihar in North-West Delhi on Saturday morning.

According to the police, it all happened in the houses of Nand Lal Wadhwa and Ashwini Babbar at Nishant Kunj in Saraswati Vihar. Mr. Babbar, president of the residents' welfare association of Nishant Kunj, said he came to know about the incident around 6 a.m. when Mr. Wadhwa called up to inform him about the burglary. "Just to be sure, I went to check the top floor of my house only to find that the burglars had entered and decamped with valuables in my house also," said Mr. Babbar.

The burglars broke open the front grill of Mr. Wadhwa's house and then sneak into the mezzanine floor from where they decamped with jewellery kept in an almirah. They then climbed the boundary wall and entered the top floor of Mr. Babbar's house where they committed burglary again. Incidentally, in both cases the occupants of the house did not realise that burglars had entered their house because they were sleeping on the ground floor.

"A similar incident had taken place in the house of Suresh Jain, a resident of house No. 8, on August 8," said Mr. Babbar. He added that the burglars had struck within four days though the police had assured the residents that such incidents would not be repeated

However, the police said such an incident had occurred for the first time.

According to a police officer, the number of burglars could not have been more than two. "We have picked up footprints of two persons on the boundary wall between the two houses. They seemed to be barefoot," said the officer.

Residents suspect that rickshaw pullers who used to illegally park their rickshaws in the Delhi Metro railway station parking lot adjacent to Nishant Kunj may have a hand behind the incident. .

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