Less than a week after the burglary worth Rs 7 lakh that took place in a book whole seller’s godown at Purana Bazar in Dhanbad, another burglary took place on Sunday in eight shops of Hirapur Hatia where cash and property worth Rs 1 lakh were stolen.

The incident came to light when Parmimal Chandra Dey, one of the victim shopkeepers, arrived this morning at his sweets shop and found a broken lock. Upon entering his shop he found silver coins and some sweets worth Rs 20,000 was missing from the shop.

Other shopkeepers, like retail vegetable sellers Uday Kumar Sao and Pappu Sao, also claimed that that silver coins worth Rs 900 and Rs 700 were stolen from their respective shops. Burglars took away cash worth Rs 20,000 from the sweet shop of Birbal Chandra Dey. Cash and vegetable worth Rs 500 were stolen from the vegetable retailer Hareram Sao while coins worth Rs 500 were stolen from the shop of Rajendra Sao in his neighbourhood.

Cash and goods including the decoration articles and puja articles were stolen from the shop of Bittu Singh and Jagat Verma also.

Talking to the media, Hareram Sao said that the cash lying in the shop was targeted in a majority of the shops.