Police said the men drilled a hole in the wall behind the safe, and suspect that they might have been helped b... Read More

NEW DELHI: Thieves broke into a post office and got less than what they bargained for. They broke a safe and fled with a cash bag from Mansarovar , only to find that the bag contained a measly Rs 487 in coins that was left by the cashier the previous day.

Police said the men drilled a hole in the wall behind the safe, and suspect that they might have been helped by a child who worked at the office gate. The place had no security guards at the time of the incident, they added.

The officials discovered the theft on Monday morning when the deputy post master reached the locker room and found it ransacked. During inspection, he spotted the hole dug on the wall. The thieves used an iron rod to open the locker. However, the accountant had emptied it last Friday and had left coins in a bag behind.

In the complaint, the deputy post master told the cops that the office was shut around 5.30pm on Saturday. The cops suspect that the thieves would have scaled the boundary wall behind the building to gain entry. They added that hole in the wall was more than 15 inches thick, which would have taken the accused at least an hour to drill.

A case of trespassing and burglary has been registered and a probe initiated. Police said there were no CCTV cameras focused on the area through which the thieves gained entry into the office.

