Surat: Unable to bear the shock of dropping money and jewellery worth Rs 25 lakh to thieves, also a 68-year-old resident of Rander Road died of cardiac arrest in his ancestral house in a village at Bharuch around Friday.
The dead Prakashchandra Rao along with his spouse Daksha had gone into their own native village Achhaliya at Jhagadiya taluka on May 27 to attend a spiritual service.
In the early hours of Friday, thieves broke into their home and returned with Rs 3 lakh money and silver and gold ornaments worth Rs 22 lakh.
Police stated that the thieves locked the few space from out while they were stabbed and completed the theft.
The episode came to light when Daksha awakened about 3.
30 am on Friday and discovered the bedroom closed from outside.
She awakened Rao and both known as their neighbours for support.
The neighbors discovered the back end of the home open and household things scattered across the ground.
Following his bedroom has been unlocked, Rao discovered the bag where the money and jewelry were retained being vacant.
A couple of minutes after Rao suffered a cardiac arrest and in minutes that he succumbed to this shock.
After finishing the last rites later throughout the afternoon, Rao’s boy Jaykumar lodged a criticism of burglary at Umalla police channel.
“The guy suffered a cardiac arrest because he dropped the money and jewelry.
We’ve started the evaluation but are to capture both the household members’ statements,” said a police officer.
The whole family was able to go to the village each year through the summer for a spiritual ceremony.
The stolen money and jewelry were attracted from Surat to exactly the identical function.