Burglaries and burglary attempts were reported at six places under Madurai city and rural police limits on Monday.
Among the places targeted by the burglars were a ration shop, a post office and the house of a police constable.
B. Dhavamani (36), a police constable residing at West Ponnagaram, lost over nine sovereigns of gold, a few silver articles and Rs. 9,000 when the family members had gone to the house of his relative in Vandiyur. The family that left on Friday returned on Monday to notice the house-break.
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Under Tallakulam police station limits, unidentified persons broke the hundial at Muthumariamman Temple in Bibikulam and decamped with around Rs. 2,000. The incident came to light on Monday.
Meanwhile, at Sellur, a real estate businessman, C. Selvaraj, who was woken up by a strange noise in the dead of the night, found a boy running away with three mobile phones from his house.
In a similar incident reported at another real estate businessman’s house in HMS Colony, burglars managed to enter the house in the early hours of Monday. However, when the inmates raised an alarm, they fled the scene.
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In the rural police limits, 142 kg of sugar was stolen from a fair rice shop at Therkku Theru near Melur. The shop was left locked on Saturday evening. When the supervisor came for work on Monday, he found the two bags of sugar missing.
Unidentified persons broke into the post office at Palkalai Nagar in Nagamalai Pudukottai and ransacked the office. Though the burglars had broken open the door, the cupboard and drawers, no valuable was missing. The sanitary worker, Kannan, noticed the attempt made at the post office on Monday morning.