Thieves cut through tin roof of empty Boalkhali house and take goods worth about Tk 300,000
A theft has taken place at a house in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram, where thieves cut through the tin roof of the stair room to get in. The gang took goods worth about Tk 300,000, including a television, a harmonium and electric fans.
The theft took place on Friday morning (13 November) at Shakhpura Lalchand Bari in Ward 5 of Shakhpura Union in the upazila. The house belongs to singer Jaya Barua.
Jaya Barua lives with her family in Chattogram city and visits the village house from time to time. She had visited the house just two days earlier as well.
Arriving at the house at about 11am on Friday, she found the tin of the stair-room roof cut. Going inside, she saw that various valuable goods were missing.
Jaya Barua said the gang took an LED television, a harmonium, a water motor, electric wire, four ceiling fans, a gas cylinder, a gas stove and various cooking items. The stolen goods are worth an estimated Tk 300,000.
She also said her house had been burgled about six months earlier too. On that occasion, criminals broke the door and took ceiling fans, a water motor and other goods.
Boalkhali Police Station officer-in-charge Md Mozaffar Hossain said police had visited the scene and received a written complaint about the theft. The matter will be investigated and legal action taken, he said.
