Jewellery, cash, gun stolen from locked house

Madurai:Unidentified people broke into a house belonging to a retired deputy tahsildar and escaped with gold jewellery, cash and a double barrel gun from the house.

P Ravindran, the retired official, who resides at Duraisamy Nagar in Madurai city, was away in Rajapalayam to celebrate Pongal. He returned home early on Monday and was shocked to see the front doors open.

On checking, he found that gold jewellery weighing 65 sovereigns, Rs 20,000 in cash and silver utensils weighing a few kilograms were missing. Based on a complaint, a case was registered with the SS Colony police station.

DCP (crime) K Palanikumar, who visited the house, said that they got some clues on the suspects and arrests will be made soon. He said that the stolen gun has a license. Cartridges of the weapon that were kept near to the gun were not touched by the thieves, he said.

Ravindran’s son got married last month. He along with his parents had gone to Rajapalayam to celebrate Pongal festival in his in-laws place.