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Family of three check into a hotel room only to steal a TV set, writes L. Srikrishna Recently, the house keeping staff of a business class hotel in the city found that a plasma television set installed in a room was missing. Shocked, the hotel authorities conducted an internal inquiry. According to insiders, a couple claiming themselves from Kerala checked into a double room along with a child around noon. After placing orders for some refreshments with the room service staff, the couple wanted to go to a temple for performing ‘saneeswara’ puja . The reception staff arranged an autorickshaw for the guests to go to the temple in the evening. After a few hours, when they returned to the hotel, they had a big carton to be offloaded from the autoricksahw and kept in their room. The couple had told the hotel staff that it was ‘puja’ materials meant to be gifted at the temple while performing the ritual. Before retiring, the couple had informed that they would have to be present at the temple by 4.30 a.m. the next day and requested them to engage an autorickshaw. The reception staff obliged. No returnAt the appointed time, the couple got into the vehicle along with the carton, promising to return to the hotel around 7 a.m. They had also inquired about the availability of a train to Kerala during the day. Even after 4 p.m. when there was no sign of their return, the hotel staff were baffled. By 9 p.m., they opened the room only to find that the plasma television set was missing. They also found some 20 bricks lying in the toilet. When contacted, the police said that they had not registered any case as there was no written complaint. “A senior executive from the hotel preferred not to lodge a complaint,’ a police officer said. However, the officer said that at a recent crime review meeting chaired by Commissioner of Police K. Nandabalan, they had suggested to all major hoteliers, shopping mall operators and jewellery showrooms to install CCTV (closed-circuit television) at vantage points in their premises on the lines of a few banks. “This will not only discourage the law offenders from indulging in cheating, but help the custodians of law to swiftly identify the accused and book them behind bars”, the officer said.
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