Kanpur: Thieves broke into a locked house belonging to a mobile accessory businessman and stole goods worth Rs 70 lakh, including cash and jewellery, in the Ramnagar Housing Society located in Shyam Nagar on Sunday.The family had gone to Chitrakoot and Maihar at the time of the incident. When they returned home late Sunday night, they discovered the theft. The DCP (East), police, and forensic team arrived at the scene to investigate. Ankur Dixit, a resident of Ramnagar Housing Society in Shyam Nagar, is a mobile accessories businessman with a shop on Mall Road. He lives with his father, Jatadhar Dixit, and wife, Aashi Dixit. He said that on the morning of June 28, around 10:30, he left with his father, uncle Prem Datt Dwivedi, aunt Shobha, and her two daughters for Chitrakoot and Maihar. Ankur’s wife, Aashi, stayed home and later locked the house to visit her parents in Barra.That night, the thieves broke the main gate lock and entered the house, breaking the centre locks of two rooms and stealing jewellery and 35,000 rupees from the wardrobe. When Ankur and the others returned around 2:30 am on Sunday night, they found the gate lock broken and the house ransacked. They informed the police, who, along with a forensic team, gathered evidence on Monday morning and reviewed nearby CCTV footage.DCP (East) Satyajit Gupta also arrived to investigate. He said that a report is being filed based on the victim’s statement, and efforts are underway to identify and arrest the culprits using the CCTV footage.
