Jewellery, valuables worth Rs 56 lakh stolen from 3 flats in Patna

PATNA: A day after theft of ornaments worth Rs 1 crore and US dollars from the residence of a merchant navy captain at Jayprakash Nagar here, thieves decamped with gold jewellery, a wrist watch worth Rs 3.6 lakh and other valuables worth more than Rs 56 lakh from three locked flats in Mahavir Enclave at Magistrate Colony under the Rajeev Nagar police station area in the city in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Thieves targeted flat numbers 102 (owned by Kiran Singh, an assistant commandant in Central Reserve Police Force in Bhopal), 401 (owned by Uday Shankar Prajapati, a BJP functionary) and 108 (owned by RJD functionary Dharmendra Yadav).
The thieves also tried to commit burglary in three more locked flats in neighbouring Aprajita Apartment, but could find nothing as these flats were vacated by tenants.
Singh, who is currently in Lucknow, told TOI over phone that the stolen valuables included ancestral jewellery of her family and the ones purchased by her. “The thieves broke open two iron almirahs and decamped with jewellery worth Rs 50 lakh from my flat,” she said.
The CRPF officer said it was society secretary B K Singh who informed her about the theft at 4am on Tuesday. “My son-in-law Sunil Singh, who lives in Patna, has filed a written complaint at the local police station,” she said.
The BJP functionary, who identified himself as member of the party’s state level backward caste cell member, said thieves decamped with a branded watch worth Rs 3.6 lakh, jewellery worth Rs 1.5 lakh, a newly purchased laptop worth Rs 52,000, branded shoes worth Rs 8000 and Rs 20,000 in cash.
SHO of Rajeev Nagar police station Nishant Kumar said two suspects were visible in CCTV camera footages. “Altogether six flats were targeted. We are trying to ascertain the identity of the thieves and arrest them,” he added.