Add thelocalreport.in As A Trusted Source
Bhopal, Nov 12 (IANS) Thieves allegedly entered the house of a woman IAS officer, Alka Singh Wamankar, in the high-security Char Imli area of Bhopal and decamped with valuables, including gold and silver jewelery worth over Rs 10 lakh.
Wamankar, who is currently serving as Deputy Revenue Commissioner and lives in E-8/11 Char Imli, was in Karala for the last 15 days. Police said on Wednesday that she had gone for her husband’s treatment and returned to Bhopal on Tuesday.
On reaching his home, Vamankar found the lock of the main door of his house broken. She also found her bedroom locked and some other valuables including jewelery and a wrist watch missing from her bedroom cupboard.
The officers immediately reached Habibganj police station and lodged a complaint on Tuesday night. The police swung into action and started investigating this theft incident; However, they remained unknown until now.
Habibganj police station SHO Sanjeev Chouksey told media persons on Wednesday, “An FIR has been registered based on the complaint received from Alka Singh Wamankar. A police team immediately visited the spot and started investigating the matter.”
Choukse further said that CCTV cameras installed in four Imli colonies are being searched to trace the thieves. He also told that the forensic team had also inspected the incident site on Wednesday.
Sources told IANS that Habiganj police have detained a suspect and he is being interrogated; However, the police have not yet made any official confirmation in this regard.
Notably, Char Imli area of Bhopal, which falls under Habiganj police station, is a high-security area where many IAS, IPS officers, cabinet ministers and judicial officers and other high-profile individuals live.
This was not the first such incident at the high-security Chal Imli Colony in the last three months, which had raised questions on law and order, especially in the state capital Bhopal.
Earlier in September this year, two bike-borne assailants snatched two mobile phones of a senior IPS officer while he was taking a post-dinner stroll outside the house allotted to him with his wife.
The IPS officer whose mobile phones were snatched is working as IG Intelligence of Madhya Pradesh. This incident had put Bhopal Police to shame. However, after a few days the police arrested two suspects.
–IANS
PD/UK