Ghaziabad: The thief allegedly broke through four houses at Sanjay Nagar Madhuban Bapay at the early hours of Monday and escaped with cash and valuable items as much as Rs 10 lakh.
The police said the men gave sedatives to deviate dogs in the area before robbing the house to prevent them barking and increasing the alarm.
The people penetrated three houses in K-block and one on J-Block.
Parvez Ali, whose house in K-Block is stolen, works as a driver of the Autorickshaw.
He said he used to run a boutique in Sanjay Nagar but after the pandemic struck, he closed his business due to excessive financial losses and became an automatic driver.
Ali said his two-month-old son suffered from a blood disease and was hospitalized.
“I sold my ancestral land and took loans from friends and relatives for my child’s care.
I have kept around Rs 2 lakh in cash and jewelry worth Rs 6 lakh in almirah in my room, stolen between 1 morning and 3am On Monday.
At the time of crime, my wife and I were in the hospital, “he said.
“I came to know about the incident when I reached my house around 6 in the morning.
I found the main door unlocked and the house was searched,” he said.
Baspal Arora, whose house was also stolen, said the thief stole Rs 15,000.
“In my area, there are about eight wild dogs and people feed them because they don’t allow foreigners in the area.
Two days ago, some men, maybe thieves, have come at night, and the dogs barked they.
When we left our homes to see what happened, they fled, “said Arora.” I suspect that they are back on Monday between 1am and 3am and give some sedatives to the dogs , people then fall.
Enter the houses they find locked from outside using bolt cutters, “he said.
The Arora family has two houses in the area.
His family members go to visit relatives when the thief struck.
The thieves also went into Rohit’s house.
Kapoor, who went to visit his daughter in Raj Nagar extension, and escaped with RS 20,000 cash and some silver coins.
They also targeted Sarita Gupta’s house in J-Block, but did not steal anything because construction work happened there.
A senior police officer said they found bread and biscuits on the streets of the area and had sent it to the Forensic Laboratory for testing.
“There is no CCTV camera that has been installed in the area, because any police did not find any identity instructions from thieves,” he said.
Nipurn Agggarwal, SP (City-1) told Ti that based on the complaint submitted by the owner of four houses, a FIR winner was registered with Burglar under 380 (theft) and 457 (home trespass) from IPC.