KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Oct 7: Criminals decamped with lakhs of rupees having broken open a fashion clothes shop at Sakchi market on the intervening night of Friday.
The burglars had entered into the shop, Jagjit Cloth Stores, having dismantled the tin roof and caption false ceiling at around 2.30 am today to stay inside it for over half an hour.
There were CCTV cameras installed in the shop and the act of stealing the cash was evident from the surveillance camera footage that has been provided to the police.
At about 9.00 am when the shop owner Jaimal Singh opened the shop by lifting the shutter, he found the roof was torn apart and the cash box lying empty. Soon the news of the burglary spread across the dense market like wildfire.
The shop owner informed the Sakchi police, leading the OC, Sanjay Singh to reach the spot for investigation.
“There has been a burglary incident at a fashion clothes shop. Though we are yet to get a formal FIR regarding the loss of cash and valuables, but it is guessed to be considerable, ” said Sanjay Singh while talking to lagatar24.com.
The OC said they have obtained the CCTV footage from the shop and are trying to press sniffer dogs to detect the criminals involved in the burglary.
It may be recalled that a similar burglary had taken place at a fashion clothes shop in Sakchi market last year when the steel city was reeling under the Coronavirus menace. The criminals had an advantage in committing the crime as shops and business establishments were being shut by early evening.
Concerned with the burglary, the traders’ community have demanded the police administration to increase night patrolling in the Sakchi market where over 1,000 shops operate.
Jamshedpur Chamber of Commerce president, Harbinder Singh Mintu while talking to the newsmen said he would soon lead a relegation of shop-keepers to intensify night patrolling at Sakchi market and also to detect those involved in the fashion clothes shop.
