Gold jewellery, cash burgled from inspector’s house in Avadi police quarters

CHENNAI Unidentified persons broke into the house of a woman police inspector at the Avadi Police Quarters and decamped with five sovereigns of gold jewellery and cash on Friday. Devika, 50, who resides in the police quarters, works as an Inspector in the Economic Offences Wing at CIT Nagar, Egmore. Police sources said she had gone to Kancheepuram on Friday to attend a wedding at a relative’s house.

When her daughters returned from school in the evening, they found that the lock on the door had been broken. They alerted Devika who lodged a complaint alleging five sovereigns of gold jewellery and cash kept in a wardrobe were missing. The Avadi police personnel visited the spot and registered a case.

Fingerprints found at the scene were lifted for forensic examination. The police have launched an investigation to trace the burglars.