2 houses burgled in Ggm; sixth case in 7 days

GURUGRAM:

In the sixth incident of its kind to be reported this month from Sushant Lok, burglars stole cash, jewellery and other valuables, worth lakhs of rupees, from two houses on Friday, the police said on Saturday. Burglars targeted the houses of a market researcher and private sector executives in blocks F and G, when they were at work. The first burglary was reported on March 1.

Siddharth Trivedi, 33, a resident of Block F in Sushant Lok 2, said, “I left for office around 9.30am and returned around 8pm Friday. The main door was open and when I entered the apartment I found cupboards opened and the house ransacked. The bed box, almirahs, and safe were all open; all the valuables were missing. My wife and daughter are away in Mumbai. My wife’s jewellery and savings, kept in her almirah, had been stolen. It looks like the thieves had spent more than an hour in the house,” he said.

According to the police, ₹50,000 in cash and jewellery worth ₹3 lakh was stolen from the ground floor apartment. Second victim Prajjawal Chauhan, a resident of Block G, said he left home around 8.30am on Friday while his flatmate was sleeping in his room.

They work in the same company in different shifts.

After two hours, the complainant received a call from his flatmate saying that their laptops and cellphones were missing. “The theft took place during the day when a person was in the house. We wonder how the thieves get to know that the person present in the apartment is sleeping. It seems the thieves did a reconnaissance of the area and identified houses they could target despite the deployment of security guards,” Chauhan said.