The police in Chennai’s Secretariat Colony police station were greeted with a bizarre complaint from a local businessman on Saturday — 10 pairs of shoes and sandals worth Rs 76,000 were missing from his home in Kilpauk.
According to a report in the Times of India, the incident happened on Saturday. Abdul Hafiz, a businessman and a resident of Diwan Bahadur Shanmugam street in Kilpauk, realised that 10 pairs of footwear were missing, even though he was at home and the main door was locked.
He approached the police with a complaint that 10 pairs of footwear — both shoes and sandals — were missing from his house. He alleged that they went missing in the space of an hour. He had allegedly walked into the house around 9.30 am and noticed that his chappals and shoes were missing around 10.30 am, on his way out of the house.
He also told police that he suspects the crime was committed by his neighbours, a group of bachelors, or his domestic worker, who lives in Velachery.
An FIR has not yet been registered. “We are yet to carry out preliminary inquiry on this case. We will question the complainant, the domestic worker and the complainant’s neighbours on Monday since the domestic worker does not work on Sunday and the bachelors were out of town on Sunday and will be back on Monday,” a policeman from the Secretariat Colony police station told TNM on Monday.
Meanwhile, the police are also looking through the CCTV footage from the house.
Source: The News Minute