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The City constabulary person intensified their probe into the large theft reported astatine the Kowdiar Palace wherever jewellery worthy astir ₹2 crore was reported missing.
District Police Chief (Thiruvananthapuram City) K. Karthick visited the palace to stitchery further details and measure the concern connected Tuesday. He said statements from palace unit and residents person already been recorded arsenic portion of the ongoing probe. Around 40 unit members reside wrong the palace premises.
Besides, regular visitors to the palace are besides nether observation. The probe squad has compiled a database of each visitors who entered the palace betwixt October and November past twelvemonth erstwhile the theft allegedly took place.
The stolen items see respective pieces of golden and gem-studded jewellery, including antique valuables that were kept successful a locked cupboard wrong the chamber of Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi, subordinate of the erstwhile Travancore royal family.
‘Value could beryllium higher’
Meanwhile, the probe could beryllium transferred to the Crime Branch considering the gravity of the crime. Officials besides constituent retired that the estimated worth of the stolen valuables could beryllium importantly higher.
According to the police, the remaining valuables person been shifted to a unafraid determination arsenic a precaution. The theft is suspected to person been carried retired by idiosyncratic acquainted with the palace layout, considering the jewellery was taken from a locker wrong an robust cupboard successful a second-floor bedroom. With the beingness of information unit and CCTV surveillance, investigators fishy that outsiders would person recovered it hard to execute the theft.
The constabulary besides fishy that the jewellery whitethorn person been smuggled retired successful phases alternatively than successful a azygous incident.
