Aurangabad: Unidentified burglars broke into four houses, all belonging to jawans serving with the State Reserve Police Force’s (SRPF) Indian Reserve Battalion, in Sudhakar Nagar area of the city in the wee hours of Monday.After the incident came to light, locals alleged that the police patrolling register has not been signed for the past six months. It was also alleged that as the area houses several policemen, it was taken for granted by the police that the households cannot be targeted.Satara police station’s senior inspector Premsagar Chandramore said Sudhakarnagar is a police colony where policemen and their kin along with other tenants live. “The unidentified suspects targeted the houses belonging to Mohan Kurkure, Sahebrao Kale, Anil Yeshi, while a futile attempt was made to burgle the house of constable Atmaram Ghuge,” he said.A woman from a neighbouring house saw the suspects targeting Ghuge’s house and raised an alarm, following which the burglars escaped from the scene.“All these houses were locked after the occupants had left for their native places to celebrate Diwali. The valuables lost in these burglaries are petty and owing to this no constable has come forward for lodging a formal complaint. Keeping these facts in the mind no FIR has been registered till Monday late,” Chandramore said.The incidents have left the city police red-faced. During the preliminary probe, the police have seized closed-circuit television camera footage that caught three suspects riding on bikes and entering the area between 3am and 5am.Following the incident, police have come forward confessing that the detection of the crime would remain a challenge due to absence of any proper clue about the suspects. Also, several residents have come forward demanding compulsory police patrolling in the area.

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