House break-ins are now not limited merely to cash or valuables. With increasing fuel prices, the gas cylinders have become the target of thieves.
In one such incident in Bhiwandi, police have registered a case against unknown persons who not only stole cash and two mobiles from a house but also three domestic gas cylinders.
The family was in Hyderabad attending a wedding. However, when the home owner’s daughter, who stays downstairs in the same building went to check on the house during the weekend, she found the door ajar and all the three LPG cylinders missing.
The incident occurred in Bhoiwada area of Bhiwandi. Valuables worth ₹23,100 were stolen and a case was registered on Sunday.
The three cylinders were kept in the kitchen while the two mobiles were in a cupboard.
Dinesh Lokhande, sub-inspector, Bhoiwada police station, said, “Prima facie, two or three burglars may have committed the theft and stolen the cylinders and other things. They broke the main door with the help of an iron rod from the complainant’s father’s house and stole the two mobile phones and cash kept in the wooden cupboard and the cylinders from the kitchen.”
The police have booked them under Section 457 (Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night to commit an offence punishable with imprisonment), 380 (Theft in dwelling house) of the Indian Penal Code.
He added that police were going through the CCTV footage in the areas and As the burglars will be nabbed soon.