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Burglars strike at suburbs

Staff Reporter

TAMBARAM : Jewels weighing more than 100 sovereigns and cash were stolen by burglars in four separate incidents in the southern suburbs.

In the first incident reported from Motilal Nagar in Irumbuliyur, East Tambaram, jewels weighing more than 50 sovereigns, Rs. 3 lakhs in cash and other valuables were stolen from the house of a civilian employee of the Indian Air Force Station, Tambaram.

Police said Chandran and his family members had gone to Tiruchendur, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari on a vacation and returned on Monday evening. The front door and the almirah containing the valuables were broken open. While most of the valuables were kept inside the almirah, a part of them were also kept on the racks and shelves,

In the second incident at Periyar Nagar in Nagalkeni near Pallavaram, the house of an Air India employee was burgled. Santhanam and his relatives had gone to Chengalpattu on Saturday evening and when they returned on Tuesday morning, they noticed a lock on the front grille gate and the wooden main door broken open. They found jewels weighing more than 50 sovereigns and about Rs. 1 lakh in cash stolen, apart from silk saris and silver articles.

In Madipakkam, jewels weighing 10 sovereigns were taken away from a handbag kept inside a house on Andavar Street. The incident took place in the house of K. P. Nambiar, who retired as an accounts manager from a Tata group company. His daughter had come to his house on vacation, the police said. She is reported to have placed the handbag on the ground floor.

And at Perungulathur, Rs.1.5 lakh in cash was stolen from a government liquor store. A salesman of the shop complained to the Peerkankaranai police that the shop witnessed sales higher than usual owing to holidays for the past three days.

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