BHOPAL: An alert student and residents of a covered campus colony averted a burglary attempt in
Misrod
on the wee hours of Tuesday. Around half a dozen thieves barged into the posh covered campus colony in
Salaiya
, Misrod past midnight and targeted a locked house. When they were breaking the locks of the house belonging to one Sunil Singhal, a 27-year-old UPSC aspirant, who was studying late night in the neighbouring house, spotted them and sent messages over their colony
WhatsApp group.
A family, who reside around 100 metres away in the colony, saw the message and sent their after waking him up along with a security guard to check the matter. The student,
Udit Shrivastava
, spotted the burglars and challenged them. The accused pelted stones on
Shrivastava
and fled after scaling the boundary wall through the agricultural fields. The accomplices of the accused were waiting for them outside with their bikes. The victim sustained severe head injury and was rushed to a hospital where he sustained six stitches.
Shrivastava had called police on Dial-100 but got no response for around an hour. Later, the colony residents informed Misrod SHO Niranjan Sharma over his mobile phone. SHO Sharma was on night patrol duty and reached the spot immediately. Misrod police searched for the accused but they had fled by then. Misrod police acting on the student’s complaint registered a case against the accused under section 382 (theft after preparation made for causing death, hurt or restraint in order to the committing of the theft) of
IPC
and started investigations.
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