Six unidentified burglars focused a cellular showroom on Sat Paul Mittal Road, also called the Malhar highway, and decamped with 26 smartphones price 6 lakh in the course of the week hours of Monday morning.

Notably, the cellular retailer didn’t have a shutter and all 5 safety guards deputed had been discovered asleep on the time of the incident. Police, in the meantime, suspect the involvement of retailer staff within the theft.

The incident was captured within the CCTVs put in on the retailer. The burglars executed the theft in round half an hour’s time.

The matter got here to mild within the morning after the safety guards awakened from their sleep solely to search out retailer ransacked. They then knowledgeable the proprietor Mridul Raj Walia of Chandigarh.

On being knowledgeable the police reached the spot and initiated an investigation. Inspector Jasbir Singh, station head officer on the Division quantity 5 police station , mentioned the proprietor had not put up a shutter and the shop solely had a glass door guarded by 5 safety guards.

The CCTVs footage reveals the burglars entered the shop at 5 am when all 5 safety guards had been sleeping.

The SHO added that the police had a gathering with all retailer house owners on Malhar highway and requested them to make safety preparations forward of the festive season.

“It is suspected that the burglars had been accustomed to the shop. The accused had been conscious that the mobiles are saved in an almirah. After frisking the money drawer the burglars broke open the almirah utilizing a screwdriver. They threw the containers within the retailer after stealing the cellphones,” the SHO mentioned.

He added {that a} case has been registered in opposition to unidentified accused. Police are questioning the safety guards and suspect their involvement within the crime.