Seven cellphones, a pair of earrings, a silver chain and a wallet were stolen from two adjacent houses in Salt Lake’s AA Block early on Tuesday.

Amitava Chatterjee, a resident of AA Block, noticed that the iron grille on one of his windows of his room had been pried apart when he woke up in the morning, an officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said.

Sensing something wrong, he searched his bedside table and realised four cellphones, a pair of earrings, a silver chain and his wallet, containing his Aadhaar card, voter I-card, PAN card and some cash, were missing, the officer said.

“Chatterjee raised an alarm, following which his next-door neighbour, Arindam Poddar, informed him that he found a window of his house open. At least three cellphones were missing,” the officer added. Chatterjee and Poddar filed complaints at Bidhannagar North police station. .

Chatterjee said in his complaint that his family had gone to bed after dinner around 10:30pm. “The family did not hear any noise during the night. They discovered the theft in the morning,” said the officer.

Poddar, too, said he and his family members had not heard any noise. When he woke up in the morning, he found one of the windows of his room open. Three cellphones were missing.

A senior officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said they had launched a probe to track down those behind the thefts.

No arrests were made till late on Tuesday.

Three arrested

Three men hailing from different areas in Park Circus have been arrested for stealing wheels and tyres off parked cars in Salt Lake, an officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said.