VADODARA: The alertness of a person living in Raopura helped the police nab a thief who was planning to break into his neighbor’s house in the early hours of Tuesday.
Kalpesh Surti, who lives behind the General Post Office (GPO) in Raopura, noticed two men lurking outside his neighbor Nilesh Modi’s house at around 5 am on Tuesday. The Modi family has gone to Mathura for a holiday. Realizing that the two were planning to break into Modi’s house, Surti was about to call the police control room when she saw two policemen from the Raopura police station passing by.
Surti stops the police and tells about both the thieves. As the police started running towards them, one of the thieves managed to escape. The second thief got into a scuffle with the police and injured them and also damaged their mobile phones. However, the thief, identified as Joginder Singh Sikligar, was apprehended and taken to Raopura police station. His accomplice has been identified as Trilok Singh alias Chingu Sikligar, who has been declared wanted.
The police have registered two separate cases against both of them for theft and causing hurt to a public servant.
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