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Rs 20 lakh worth jewellery stolen in separate thefts
In what could be one of the biggest thefts in the city, over Rs 20 lakh worth of goods were stolen today in two separate incidents. A jewellery shop was burgled in the early hours of Sunday in Rasta Peth. According to the complaint lodged by Nagraj Chandmal Chajjed, jewellery worth Rs 9,68,200 were stolen.
According to ACP crime II V P Munde, the lock of the shop was broken by the burglars and a small opening made in the exhaust facility of the shop. 8220;The wire mesh was broken and the fan twisted and ripped out thus providing an entry for the thieves,8221;said ACP Munde.
In the panic, the burglars left behind a Rs 10,000 bundle of cash and a few jewellery pieces. According to the old lady8217;s account more than three people were involved in the heist.
In the second incident, bonds and jewellery worth Rs 10,45,000 were found missing from a locker at the HDFC bank8217;s Boat Club Road branch on Sunday. According to the FIR lodged by Gurulin Kaur and Balwinder Singh Sehgal, residents of Kondhwa Budruk, their valuables were found missing on Sunday when they went to open their locker. They had last seen the contents of their locker on February 11 and a wedding prompted them to withdraw the jewellery from the bank on Sunday.
On discovering the jewellery missing they lodged a complaint with the Bund garden police. According to the police, since the theft was discovered only after the couple opened the locker, they are suspecting an inside job.
Carrom dispute leads to murder
Just as the cricket fever in the city had claimed a life last month, a fight over an innocuous carrom game led to the murder of a man and grievous injuries to two others on Saturday night.
Ajay Gaikwad 21 was playing a game with Sandeep Vishnu Sadamat 21 when differences led to an argument. Sandeep lost his temper and with his brother Nitin allegedly attacked Ajay. According to the FIR lodged with the Khadki police station, Sandeep and Nitin caught Ajay and stabbed him in the stomach. When Ajay8217;s brother-in-law, Santosh Prakash Jadhav 27 tried to intervene, he too was attacked by the two brothers.
Santosh8217;s younger brother, whose name was also Sandeep joined his brother and Ajay in the melee. He too was attacked by the two brothers who stabbed him twice, in the chest and the stomach. All three bleeding profusely, were rushed to Jehangir Hospital where Sandeep succumbed to his injuries.
Meanwhile, Ajay and Santosh, were also admitted to the hospital and their condition has been described as serious. The two accused brothers, Nitin and Sandeep, were picked up by the police following the FIR lodged by Santosh and have been booked for murder and attempted murder by the Khadki police. Police inspector S M Jamdade is investigating.
