Thane: Jewellery, valuables worth Rs 7.38 lakh stolen from house in Dombivli

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Unidentified persons allegedly broke into a flat in Dombivli township of Maharashtra's Thane district and stole jewellery and other valuables worth Rs 7.38 lakh, police told PTI on Thursday.

The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon when a 27-year-old man, his wife and parents, residing in a flat on the third floor of a building in Desle Pada area, went to a relative's house for the Raksha Bandhan celebration, an official from Manpada police station in Dombivli told PTI.

When the family returned home, the man found his door lock broken and jewellery and other items missing from a cupboard, he said.

The stolen goods were worth Rs 7.38 lakh, the official told PTI.

The police have registered a case against unidentified persons under Indian Penal Code sections 454 (lurking house-trespass or house breaking in order to commit offence) and 380 (theft), the official told PTI, adding a probe is on into the case.

Meanwhile, Police have arrested two persons in Maharashtra's Thane district and seized 24 stolen mobile phones from their possession, an official told PTI on Thursday.

There were a number of complaints in the recent past of theft of mobile phones from public places and homes of people here, senior police inspector Sandeep Kadam from Kashimira police station told PTI.

A police probe team checked the CCTV footage and also worked on technical and intelligence inputs before nabbing the two accused in Thane city on Saturday, he said.

Following their interrogation, the police seized 24 stolen mobile phone handsets worth around Rs 1.5 lakh from their possession over the last two days, the official told PTI.

Meanwhile, the Navi Mumbai police have arrested an auto-rickshaw driver and a labourer for allegedly electrical goods worth Rs 13.5 lakh from a container in Kharghar area, an official told PTI on Thursday.

The incident took place on the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday, the official from Kharghar police station told PTI.

Some unidentified persons broke open the container parked at a CIDCO water plant in Kharghar and stole various items including conductors and earth wires worth Rs 13.5 lakh belonging to a contractor, the official told PTI.

After examining CCTV footage of the area and working on various leads, the police arrested a 28-year-old auto-rickshaw driver and a labourer aged 32 late Wednesday night from Kharghar, he said.

The police were in the process of recovering the stolen goods, the official told PTI.

(With inputs from PTI)