Rs18.29 lakh booty stolen in 4 cases

Nagpur: Four burglaries, including one in a hotel room, were reported between Sunday and Monday at different locations in the city. Collectively cash and valuables worth Rs18.29 lakh were stolen. Police have registered burglary cases under sections 454, 457, 380 of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
In the first incident, cash and valuables worth Rs4.71 lakh were stolen from the residence of lieutenant General Ravindra Thodge (retd) at Deendayal Nagar between Saturday and Monday. Thodge, who was appointed on BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA) by the Supreme Court in February, had gone out of city along with his wife when the incident happened.
According to police, the burglar broke open the lock of the gallery’s gate on the first floor to enter the house. One of the neighbours spotted the broken lock and informed Pratap Nagar police.
In another incident, Sathish Sathiya, a 58-year-old scrap dealer from Pune, lost cash Rs11 lakh from the hotel room where he had stayed put between May 3 and May 5. Tehsil police are searching for an allegedly ‘missing’ hotel staff who had joined recently and has not come to work since two days.
The burglary took place when Sathiya had gone to Hingna for some work. When he returned, he found the cash kept in a cupboard missing. Police said the accused must have used a ‘duplicate’ key to enter the room as the door was locked when Sathiya returned.
In the third incident, house of Jamnabai Shrivasm, 80, at Vishwas Nagar was targeted by a burglar who decamped with cash and valuables worth Rs1.73 lakh between April 18 and Sunday. The burglary took place when Jamnabai had gone to her younger daughter’s house in Balaghat. Jaripatka police have registered a case.
In the fourth incident, cash and valuables worth Rs85,000 were stolen from the house of Ritesh Gudhe, 42, between Saturday and Sunday in Hudkeshwar. Gudhe had gone to Tuljapur along with family when the incident happened.