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MAPUSA
The owner of the shop filed police complaint and after investigating the case police nabbed accused person from his residence. Police has registered offence under Section 454 and 380 of IPC. Police are further investigating the case.
Burglars decamped with gold ornaments and cash valued at a combined Rs 1.7 lakh from the famous Shri Laxmi Narayan temple in a busy part of Mapusa on Sunday night. This is the third burglary reported in the temple within the last 10 years.
The burglary came to light on Monday morning when the temple poojari noticed one door open and found two cupboards ransacked. He alerted the temple committee president, Ramchandra Kamat Malyekar.
They noticed that the gold ornaments and cash of Rs 20,000 were stolen from one room, while the donation box had also been broken open. However, burglars did not steal gold ornaments from the sanctum sanctorum.
A Mapusa police team led by PSI Yogrenda Garudi went to the site to conduct investigations. PI Tushar Lotlikar and the temple committee later visited the site to take stock of the incident.
Police believe that the burglars entered the temple premises by cutting open the door lock of the poojari’s room with the help of a gas cutter and stole some gold ornaments and cash of Rs 20,000.
The burglars then entered the temple by cutting open the window grills. They then ransacked the cupboard and broke open the donation box, where they stole cash of about Rs 70,000.
Incidentally, the donation box had not been opened for the last three months.
“We are lucky that despite the gas cutters, the burglars did not break into the sanctum sanctorum, where much of the gold is placed, else the loss could have been several lakhs of rupees,” Malyekar told reporters.
One held in theft case
PONDA: One Subham Nepali, 21, from Prabhunagar Ponda has been arrested in connection with theft occured in shop in the wee hours of Saturday. Ponda police informed that accused person gained entry into general store at Silvanagar, Ponda and decamped with five thousand cash.
