Rs 2 lakh, jewellery stolen from house in Ludhiana

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, October 3

Thieves broke into a locked house when its occupants were away and stole cash and valuables while the police claimed to have arrested three snatchers and two thieves in separate incidents.

A house in Friends Colony was burgled on the intervening night of September 30 and October 1 when the occupants were away. Thieves broke open a window of the locked house and decamped with cash and other valuables. In a complaint lodged with the police, Rita Pal, a resident of Friends Colony, said she had gone to the Delhi airport on September 30, after locking the house.

“When I returned on October 2, I found that a window was open and locker of an almirah was also ransacked and Rs 2 lakh in cash and gold ornaments were missing,” she said.

The police have registered a case under Sections 457 and 380 of the IPC in this regard on Saturday.

The police claimed to have nabbed three snatchers, Karnail Singh, Ritik Mishra, both residents of Mand Chaunta, and Harish Kumar, a resident of Model Colony, Jagirpur, who have been charged under Sections 379 of the IPC, yesterday. The police said they were nabbed from the T-Point at Bajra on Rahon Road on the basis of a tip-off that they were involved in several incidents of snatchings and loots. On the basis of information provided by them, the police had recovered a stolen Hero Deluxe motorcycle (bearing registration no. PB 10HA 5398), 15 mobile phones and a daat (sword).

Three thieves were caught in another incident by staff of a resort on Barewal Road and the public on Saturday. While two of them were overpowered, their third accomplice managed to escape. In a complaint to police, director of Apna Punjab Resort said the staff had found three persons stealing scrap and other items from the resort where the construction work was being carried out. Two out of the trio, Vicky, resident of Panj Peer Road, and Akshay, resident of Lal Kothi, Haibowal, were nabbed while another accused identified as Sunny of Panj Peer Road had managed to escape. The police had booked all three accused under Section 379 of the IPC and had recovered plastic pipes, iron scrap and two bags of plastic material from them.

Mobile snatched

Two motorcycle-borne youths snatched a mobile phone from Suchita Dixit, a resident of Sector 39, Moti Nagar, on Saturday when the woman was returning home on foot after consultation with a doctor at Aykai Hospital on Ludhiana-Chandigarh Road. The victim said the snatchers came from the rear and fled after snatching her mobile phone. The police had registered a case under Section 379-B of the IPC.

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