Jamshedpur : Kharangajhar market in Telco was recently rocked by serial burglaries prompting the police to convene a meeting with local traders under the aegis of Jamshedpur Chamber of Commerce.
When a gang of burglars succeeded to decamp with gold and silver jewelleries worth over Rs 1 lakh from a jewellery shop in the Kharangajhar market, the gang uprooted the shutter of another another jewellery shop and a grocery shop at the same marketplace.
The jewellery shops which have been burgled were identified as Vinod Jewelleries and AK Jewelleries, and the grocery shop belonging to Om Prakash Gupta.
In this connection, separate FIRs were lodged by Viond Kumar Sony and Ashwini Kumar who are the owners of Vinod Jewellers and AK Jewellers respectively, and by Om Prakash Gupta with the Telco police station. Officer-in-charge, Telco police station, Kamleshwar Pandey said they will increase vigil.
The officer-in-charge said that they would intensify night patrolling at the market from today. There were many dignitaries including Mohanlal Agarwal, Gurjit Singh, Sanjay Mani Tripathi, Arvind Upadhyay, BJP president Jitendra Rai.
The traders have also decided to rope in private security personnel and CCTV cameras to ensure safety.
