The accused also took away Rs 8 lakh in cash from a drawer of the showroom.
JAIPUR: Mobile phones worth over Rs 50 lakh were stolen from a newly opened showroom near Govind Marg in Vaishali Nagar on Thursday.
The midnight theft left the city police in a quandary because the showroom’s shutter and glass doors were completely intact with no signs of tampering.
“The accused fled with 93 mobile phones of different models, they took away a digital video recorder (DVR) of the CCTVs to erase evidence,” said SHO, Vaishali Nagar, Anil Kumar Jaiman.
The accused also took away Rs 8 lakh in cash from a drawer of the showroom.
The owner, Nitin Rela, a resident of Mansarover, told TOI that he had arrived at the showroom on Thursday morning. The staff rolled up the shutter, only to find empty cartons and mobile boxes strewn around all over the floor. The accused also broken into the storeroom where many freshly arrived mobile phones were kept in different boxes. Interestingly, the gate of the storeroom was designed in a way to make it appear as part of the showroom’s walls. Therefore, it was difficult for any outsider to easily find the way to the room.
The accused had broken into the showroom in a very mysterious manner. The entry gates including the iron shutter and a glass door did not have anything to suggest that the accused had tried to uproot them, how the accused entered the place remains a mystery even to the cops.
The police asked the owners to give the list of all the employees that worked at the showroom, which opened about a month ago.
While the police have not ruled out the possibility of the staff as yet, the daring theft has footprints of a more skilled gang. “The way in which the accused had slipped into the mobile showroom is bewildering. It only suggests that the gang had a prior experience of sneaking into shops without leaving much evidence behind them,” an official told TOI.
The place where the incident took place is located on one of the busiest spots of the shopping area which divides the jurisdiction areas of Vaishali Nagar and Chitrakoot police stations.
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