Coimbatore: Burglars decamped with 2kg of silver ornaments and 10 sovereigns of gold ornaments from a jewellery shop at Viswasapuram near Saravanampatti on Sunday.
D Thirumalai Murugaraj of Viswasapuram, owner of ‘Maruthi’ at VPR Commercial Complex on the Sathyamangalam Road, had locked the shop on Saturday around 9pm. On early Sunday morning, burglars broke open the steel shutter to enter the shop.
Forensic experts inspected the crime scene and lifted fingerprints. A sniffer dog was also pressed into service. The Saravanampatti (crime) police collected CCTV footage from nearby shops and formed a special team to nab the burglars.