Dessert storm: Mithai marauders strike sweet shop 10 times in 9 years

In repeated burglary cakewalks, thieves person been raiding a Nadiad confectionery, Krishna Dairy Products, and person had criminally saccharine occurrence 10 times successful 9 years. The shop's owner, Mukesh Pandit, 44, said the burglars look to dainty wealth lone arsenic a airy dessert.

"Most of the time, thieves took immoderate currency but loads of mithai - to the tune of quintals," helium said.Pandit, who opened the store successful 2015, told TOI, "I filed complaints 3 times. Police simply made 'janva jog' (station diary entries). None of the burglaries were cracked." He installed CCTVs to awesome the sour consequences of pilferage, but burglars thought the integer video recorder is the cherry connected apical of their booty and nicked that too.

"Before I could reinstall CCTVs, burglars struck again," Pandit said. "I person done everything to halt burglaries, from putting up robust grills to placing high-tech cameras.

" "A constituent extracurricular my store has a constabulary picket. But during VVIP visits and festivals, the cops permission to articulation bandobusts. The burglaries hap connected these days," helium said. The latest theft was connected Nov 30, during which burglars stole 12kg of kaju katri worthy Rs 12,000, 73.5kg of mixed mawa sweets worthy Rs 38,200, and 35kg of shrikhand worthy Rs 13,300. Other purloined items were mixed biscuits worthy Rs 15,000, 70kg of namkeen worthy Rs 16,800, and Rs 3,500 successful cash.

The full nonaccomplishment from the break-in was Rs 98,800, Pandit said.