A gang of unknown thieves broke into a retired police inspector’s house at Teachers’ Colony in Jamshedpur on wee hours of Thursday. The theft took place when ex-cop Shailendra Singh was fast asleep with his wife and 10-year-old grand-daughter in one of the rooms of his three-storey residence.

Confirming the news, City Superintendent of Police, Subhash Chandra Jat, said that the police are trying to trace the thieves that broke into the ex-police officer’s residence and stole two suitcases from the second-floor room of his three-storey building.

“There has been a theft at a retired police inspector’s house in the wee hours of Thursday. We are trying to solve the case by collecting CCTV camera footage,” said Jat while talking to The Telegraph Online.

He also informed that sniffer dogs could not be used in this case to get a lead, as the miscreants left no clue on the spot.

The retired inspector said, “I was in New Delhi for the past two months with my family. We returned on Wednesday afternoon only. We all went to bed late on Wednesday night. When we woke up, my wife found that two of our bags were missing from the room. On searching, I found the suitcases on the roof-top. They were open with clothes strewn around.”

According to the victim, the storeroom on the roof-top was open. “The thieves could have entered into the room from the unlocked door of the storeroom,” he said.

Speaking about his loss, Singh said, “I had around Rs 8000 in my suitcase, while my wife had Rs 13000 and gold jewellery worth over Rs 5 lakh in her suitcase. The thieves took away the cash and gold jewellery, leaving behind the inexpensive stuff.”

Officer-in-Charge of Sitaramdera police station, Anjani Kumar Singh, mentioned, “The thieves could be professionals, as they not only stole the expensive things at a time when the former cop was sleeping but has also left almost no clue for the police. We are now banking on CCTV footage for any lead.” He maintained that night patrolling in the area had been intensified.