Gold ornaments worth lakhs stolen from industrialist’s house

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, November 3

A thief barged into the house of an industrialist at Greens Rajguru Nagar on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday and decamped with gold ornaments worth lakhs of rupees.

House owner Dhruv Gupta, who owns Servo Stablizers manufacturing industry, said when the theft took place, his sister and parents were present in the house.

The thief had entered the first floor of his house from the adjoining under-construction building. The thief ransacked his entire room and decamped with gold ornaments worth around Rs 7 lakh. Then thief stole silver ornaments from the temple in house as well.

At around 1.40 am on Tuesday, when he entered the house, the thief after noticing the movement, jumped from the 20-ft-high wall and fled, alleged Dhruv.

Dhruv said the thief had also taken away DVR of CCTV cameras but CCTV footage recovered from the nearby building clearly captured the running thief.

Dhurv said the Sarabha Nagar police along with forensic experts visited the house for investigation but FIR is yet to be registered.