Mangalore: Serial Thieves Target Five Shops, One Clinic in City
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje/Spoorthi Ullal
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (PS)
Mangalore, Dec 9: Serial thieves were back in action in the city, looting as many as five shops and a doctor's clinic in the early hours of Friday December 9.
The thieves targetted Megha Fashions, a cloth store-cum-laundry shop, Freeze Zone, an AC sales and services shop owned by Ivan Lobo, Indane Gas Distributers, Laxmi General Store, the clinic of Dr Ravindra, a veterinary doctor, and Garodi Juice Centre. While the first three shops are located in the Netravati Layout in Kankanady, the latter three are a little further off.
The thieves decamped with Rs 55,000 from Megha Fashions, owned by Sapna Jeevam, Rs 15,000 from Indane and Rs 4000 from Laxmi General Stores. Curiously, the thieves took away only cash and left other valuables like electronic items untouched.
The amount of money stolen from other places is yet to be ascertained.
It is said the thefts were discovered by an auto driver who came on duty early morning and saw the shutters of shops had been pried open. He alerted the others and police were informed.
Preliminary investigations pointed to a suspicion that the thieves were not very professional, as some of the tools they left behind seemed amateurish.
It is quite disturbing that despite having police patrol, PCR vehicles and policemen on night beat, the thieves managed to get away. When media asked where the policemen on night beat were at the time of the theft, some police sources said that the siren in a bank in Vamanjoor went off and the police had to rush there, which resulted in lack of staff in Kankanady.
Police inspector Ravish Nayak of Kankanady rural police along with his team is at the spot.