Coimbatore: Burglars have broken into a house and retail shop in the east zone of the city corporation and decamped with gold ornaments weighing 40 sovereigns and Rs 15.34 lakh.
The Singanallur (crime) police said the burglars had entered the house, which was located at Kothari Nagar, when its owner S Mariappan, 57, was away in his hometown at Thalaiyuthu in Tirunelveli district.
“An assessment officer with the Tangedco office at Ondipudur, Mariappan had left for Thalaiyuthu on April 23 after locking his house. When he returned home around 10am on Monday, he found the front door lock was broken open and gold ornaments weighing 40 sovereigns and Rs 1.5 lakh was missing from the house,” an investigation officer told TOI.
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