PPE-clad thieves rob Nashik ICICI Home Finance locker of Rs 5 Cr gold jewellery

In a sensational operation, not less than two thieves, one shrouded in a PPE equipment, broke into the locker maintain of the ICICI Home Finance Co. Ltd Nashik department and scooted off with gold jewellery price round Rs 4.93 crore, police stated right here on Monday.

The theft is believed to have occurred round midnight of Friday-Saturday however got here to mild late on Saturday night when a financial institution official had gone to the locker room to deposit a buyer’s valuables, stated Sarkarwada Police Station’s lady Investigating Officer, declining to be recognized.

“From the CCTV footage, there have been not less than two thieves who broke into the sturdy room of the department, of whom one was sporting a PPE equipment and the opposite had his face coated. A 3rd confederate was ready outdoors the department. They have damaged into one most important locker the place many shoppers’ gold jewellery and different valuables had been saved,” she informed IANS.

As per investigations, the locker contained the property of not less than 222 clients comprising a complete estimated 1.34 kgs of gold ornaments with an approximate worth of Rs 4.93 crore, that are lacking, stated the IO, even because the crime despatched shockwaves within the firm and the shoppers.

Following a criticism by the ICICI-HFC, she stated that the police have swung into motion, and fashioned a number of groups of the native police and crime department unit, to research the case and hint out the three unidentified desperadoes seen within the CCTV footage.

The ICICI-HFC department is located on the third flooring of the Indira Heights enterprise complicated of the busy thoroughfare often called Gangapur Naka with heavy site visitors and crowded with individuals.

Despite repeated makes an attempt, ICICI-HFC officers or ICICI Bank authorities weren’t accessible for feedback on the matter at the same time as police have tightened patrolling within the Gangapur Naka neighborhood.

(With inputs from IANS)