Panchkula home cleaned up of rice, sugar, perfumes

PANCHKULA: Burglars with a taste for the finer things in life and an eye for daily essentials left with their hands full from Sector 25.
From expensive perfumes to LED TVs and rice to blankets, they cleaned up all the rooms and even the kitchen, ticking off all the items they probably had written in their shopping list before striking at the house of a former MLA.

Pooja Bansal, the daughter of former MLA late D K Bansal and a resident of house number 102, got the shock of her life when she returned home with her family from out of station after four days on Tuesday morning. “The main door was broken. As I entered the house, I found two LED TVs of 45 and 55 inches missing. All the almirahs were ransacked and expensive perfumes and creams gone,” she said. Her next stop was the kitchen.
She said they took away food items, including 5 kg refined oil, 10 kg sugar and 20 kg rice with utensils. As many as 20 silver coins were also stolen. That is not all. The accused also decamped with blankets from the first floor of the house after breaking the locks.
Pooja called up the cops, who arrived with forensic officials. They took fingerprints and combed the house for other key clues. Police registered a case under Sections 380 (theft at dwelling house) and 457 (lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Chandimandir police station and started the investigation.
Chandimandir police station house officer Inspector Naveen Kumar, said, “We have registered a case. The accused will be caught soon.