Vadodara: Two sandalwood trees were chopped off and stolen from the official residence of IPS officer Subhash Trivedi — inspector general of police (Arms Unit, Vadodara) — at Lalbaug on Tuesday.
A police constable of state reserve police force deployed at the bungalow registered complaint of theft and damage to public property at Navapura police station on Tuesday evening after the incident came to light at the time of shift change.
According to police, when the complainant Jayesh Rathwa reached Trivedi’s bungalow on Tuesday morning, another constable who was deployed there during night shift informed him that two sandalwood trees near the gate of the bungalow were missing. Rathwa informed the police in his complaint, that one tree was on the right side of the gate while the other one was on the left side.
Police said that the constable Sunil Vhale, who was present there during night shift, did not realize when the thieves chopped six feet long trees using an axe or an electric machine. The sandalwood stem which was stolen was weighing around five kilogram and was valued at Rs 17,500.
Cops said that Trivedi was not present in the house when the theft took place.
The official residence of IPS officer Subhash Trivedi at Lalbaug from where the trees were chopped on Tuesday