A CCTV grab shows two of the accused in front of the house that was burgled

BENGALURU: Car-borne burglars, including a woman, broke into a house in the second floor of a three-storey building in Whitefield and made away with 232 grams of gold and Rs 60,000 on December 1.

In his complaint, filed the same day, Dhanunjay Naidu Paila said the incident took place between 10.05am and 10.45am. Paila and his wife are software engineers and live in the second floor of the building in HAL Mirage Layout, Nagondanahalli.

On realising something was amiss when he returned home on December 1, Paila sought CCTV footage from his neighbour’s camera.

Paila told STOI that a white sedan had entered their street at around 10.05am. At that time, Paila was taking out his car from the cellar. Accompanied by his wife, their infant son and in-laws, Paila left home at 10.06am. Paila’s in-laws were supposed to catch a bus to Andhra Pradesh from Majestic.

Citing the CCTV footage, Paila said: “After we left, the same car came into our street and passed by our house at 10.08am. The car went up to the dead-end of the street to take a U-turn. At about 10.10am, the car stopped in front of our house and a man and a woman got off the vehicle and entered our building.”

He said the duo asked the occupants of the house on the ground floor if any flat was available for rent. “The woman returned to the car. A few minutes later, the man too returned, picked up a backpack and entered the house with another man. At 10.45am, the two men casually walked out of my house with bags on them. One of them carried my backpack and I recognised it from the colour. The car, which was parked outside our gate, left soon after,” Paila said.

Among the things which went missing from Paila’s house is jewellery that was to be a gift for their son, who turned one on December 5. “My in-laws had gifted the ornaments and I had kept them in a cupboard. The thieves looted everything; they did not even spare my son’s feeding bowl,” Paila added.

