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Realtor's house in Shamshabad burgled

Staff Reporter

Theft committed during daytime

HYDERABAD: Two burglars broke into the house of a realtor at Shamshabad on the city fringes and took away valuables worth Rs 5 lakhs, including a television set, on a scooter during daytime on Thursday.

They came to Ootpally village in Shamshabad on a scooter around 2 p.m. and asked the villagers to guide them to realtor Jagan's house. The local people were busy with a religious ritual being organised in the village and mistaking the strangers to be the realtor's friends showed the house.

No one in house

While Jagan and his wife went out, his children were away in school. One burglar went inside the house and broke open the lock of the main door, while the other waited outside with the scooter.

"Since the house was located in a corner and one of the offenders was waiting outside, the neighbours did not get any doubt," Rajendranagar ACP B. Narsimhulu said. The house owner left the keys of the almirah outside, which made the job of the burglar even easier.

He collected Rs. 3 lakhs, gold ornaments weighing 20 tolas and a TV set, came out and rode off with his accomplice even as the villagers watched. Police suspect persons familiar to Jagan to have committed the theft.

After the villagers showed the realtor's house, one of the offenders called up a person from his mobile and said that the house was located and 70 per cent of the work was accomplished.

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