The Jewelery Shop is located on the first floor of the building on Paper Mills Road. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
An unidentified person used welding equipment to punch a hole in the metal shutter of a jewelery shop in Perambur on Thursday night and looted 9 kg of gold and diamonds from the store’s safe, police said.
The shop is on the first floor of a building on JL Gold Palace, Paper Mills Road. Police said the suspects made a hole in a shutter large enough for a person to enter, then broke open the safe to steal valuables.
After inspecting the crime scene, Additional Commissioner of Police, North, TS Anbu said, “We received information in the morning that gold and diamonds were stolen from the shop. Six special teams have been formed to probe the matter.”
The teams are headed by Joint Commissioner of Police, North Ramya Bharathi and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Pulianthope, I. Easwaran. The police are scanning the CCTV footage from the vicinity and fingerprint experts have also taken samples. The police are also questioning the employees of the shop to ascertain whether any insider was involved in the theft.
“We are collecting evidence and investigating. There is CCTV coverage in the entire area, and we can make some progress with it. The matter will be solved and the accused will be nabbed soon,” Mr. Anbu said.