Clerk in burgled home waits six days for Lucknow cops to finally act

LUCKNOW: Burglars broke into the house of a clerk in Ganna Sansthan and decamped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh in Indiranagar.
The incident took place on August 11 but the police registered the case on Saturday, six days after the incident.
According to police, Sunil Kumar Singh (50), a native of Azamgarh, lives on the ground floor of the house along with his wife and two children.His brother and sisters live with their families on the remaining two floors of the house.
On August 11, Kumar left for Azamgarh with his family to perform the 'tehravi' of his father, who had passed away on July 31, locking all the three floors of the house.
Kumar received a call from his neighbour early on August 12 morning who informed him that the lock of the main door of his house was broken.
He returned to Lucknow the same day at around 2pm and found that burglars had taken away Rs 10,000 cash and gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh from an almirah in the bedroom of the ground floor.
Swati (48), wife of Sunil Singh, said no CCTV camera was installed in their alley. "We have scanned the footages of the CCTV cameras in our vicinity but have not found anything specific. The burglars took away jewellery that I had been collecting since my marriage about 20 years ago," she said.
"We called the local police station on August 12 but they asked us to register an online FIR but we were unable to do so as the registration kept failing. The same thing happened on August 13 and 14. We went to the police station on August 15 but the police said they will register the case after two days. On August 17, we called on Dial 100 service after which our FIR was lodged," said Swati.
"Someone close to the family, who may have visited the house on the death of my father-in-law on July 31, may be involved in the burglary," she said.
Station house officer Santosh Kumar Kushwaha said, "We are investigating the case. We lodged the FIR only after receiving the compliant from the family."