Hole drilled in hotel to steal jewellery

NEW DELHI: This was a break-in with a difference. The target was a jewellery shop but the shutters remained intact, rather firmly in place. The burglars - a team of three - apparently checked into a hotel room, right above an adjoining shop closed for sometime now, drilled a hole in the floor to lower themselves into that shop and then made a hole in the wall it shared with the jewellery shop, Bharat Art Gallery.

The men had checked into room nos. 117 and 118 of Hotel Hari Piorko in Paharganj on March 17 i.e. Holi. Quite incredibly, over the week, they used gas cutters, drilling machines, rods, lock breakers and gas cylinders to execute their plan to rob Bharat Art Gallery but no one from the hotel got wind of it. No one heard any noise and this elaborate planning went completely unnoticed.

The hotel has told Delhi Police that it was only when the room service staff went to check the vacated rooms in the afternoon, they discovered the hole in the floor that was hidden under the bed. By then, the three men - one in late thirties, another in early twenties and the third around 16 - had left. They had checked out around 4 am, said the police. The cops were called in around 4pm.

It is suspected that the final strike was made on the intervening night of March 23-24. Interestingly, the jewellery shop is closed on Mondays and the burglars must have thought that this would give them some lead time before their handiwork was discovered. It is suspected that the driving licences the men had submitted as proof of identity are fake. They had claimed to be from Panipat.

The worth of jewellery taken away is not clear and cops are making an assessment. The men had first collected the ones spread on racks and panels and also in drawers (around 500g). They then attempted to cut through a safe which had jewellery worth several crores but the drilling machines proved inadequate. The three then retraced their steps, perhaps hauling themselves back into the rooms using a rope and made good their escape.

Forensic teams have picked up evidence and samples from the rooms and a number of people, including the hotel staff, shopkeepers in the area and their employees, are being questioned. CCTV footage of the hotel and the area is also being checked.

A team of officers, led by DCP (central) Alok Kumar, is investigating the case.

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