Thieves strike at store, load steal on its tempo

Times News Network
Ludhiana: Burglars targeted an electronics and furniture store in Nanak Nagar, Karabara Road, early on Tuesday.
Store owner Ashok Virmani, 48, said the thieves loaded the steal onto a tempo of the store and escaped.
Virmani, a resident of Salem Tabri, said in his police complaint, “My electronics and furniture store is located at the rear of vegetable market. It has two keys. I keep one and the other is with my employee, Rinku. Every day, Rinku opens the store. On Tuesday around 9.30am, when he reached the store, he found the main shutter lock broken. The store was ransacked and our tempo stolen.”
The CCTV cameras installed in the shop have captured four accused. “The thieves have stolen a bed, four mattresses, two dressing tables, an LED TV screen, an air cooler and several other items. They loaded the steal on the tempo parked inside the store premises and escaped. I have incurred a loss of over Rs 1.50 lakh,” he added.
Later, one of the store employees found the empty tempo parked in the vegetable market.
Virmani said, “Two days ago, there was a theft attempt at a dhaba in the market. And before that thieves had targeted a grocery store here. There are no police checks in the area.”
Daresi police station SHO sub-inspector Davinder Singh said, “We are scrutinizing the CCTV footage. A case will be registered after recording the statement of the complainant. As of now, involvement of an insider is not suspected.”
On night surveillance in the market, the SHO said, “Night patrolling will be increased in the area.”