Mangalore: Rs 5 Lac Worth Gold Stolen from High Security Apartment
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, May 23: Unknown thieves gained entry into an apartment located on the ninth floor of His Grace apartment at Hat Hill near Lalbagh in the city and decamped with gold ornaments worth about Rs 5 lac.
Kumar Shenoy, working as manager in the city-based Infosys Technologies, who resides in apartment No. S-92 in the said residential complex, was away with his family on a two-day excursion when the incident happened. He returned to his home on the night of Sunday May 22, and found to his dismay that the thieves had cut open the glass of a window in his apartment, entered it, and had taken away about 32.5 sovereigns of gold ornaments worth around five lac rupees.
The timing of the theft is not clear, as no one was aware of the theft till the family returned home and found out what had happened.
What baffled the policemen and media persons alike, is the occurrence of theft at this high rise apartment in spite of the presence of tight security at the ground floor, where the entry of people and vehicles are meticulously recorded.
Urwa police station personnel visited the spot and conducted inspection. They have registered a case and begun investigation.