JCI official’s house robbed in Salt Lake

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Posted online: Tuesday , February 05, 2008 at 03:05:42
Updated: Tuesday , February 05, 2008 at 03:23:11

Kolkata, February 4 In yet another burglary in Salt Lake’s BB block, a gang of thieves escaped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 20 lakh from the house of a senior official of the Jute Corporation of India early on Monday morning.

A complaint has been lodged at Bidhannagar (North) police station. No one has been arrested yet.

Abhijit Guha, head of JCI’s finance unit, said the family was sleeping in one of the ground-floor rooms at the back of the house.

“We do not know when the miscreants broke in. In the morning, my wife saw a cat roaming inside the house. Even as we wondered how the animal had entered, we noticed that the front door was open. The almirah in one of the rooms had been ransacked,” Guha said.

The police suspect that the gang merely picked up the door keys, which the family kept atop a music system near one of the windows, and unlocked the main door to slip in.

“None of us heard any noise. One of the neighbours later told us that he had heard some dogs barking at midnight,” Guha said.

“We have been living here for the last 10 years but never felt insecure. Now, this township has become a very unsafe place to live in,” Guha said.

“We have received a complaint. Raids are on to nab the miscreants. A gang is involved in the heist,” said Superintendent of Police (North 24 Parganas) Supratim Sarkar. A week ago, four armed thieves had robbed a 72-year-old widow at her BH block residence in Salt Lake.

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