Vadodara: Gold and silver worth Rs 2.5 lakh was stolen from two shops at Patodiya Pol near Mandvi in the wee hours of Wednesday.Police said the complainant, Sanjay Bera, who lives in Baranpura, learned about the burglary on Wednesday morning when an employee found the lock on his shop broken. Another goldsmith, Kalidas Soni, also found his ground-floor shop broken into.An unidentified person broke into Bera’s shop on the second floor of the building at around 2.30am, by breaking the lock on an iron grill and door using a cutter. The investigation found that the accused also broke the latches on iron grills installed on the staircases at the first and second floors.“There was only one perpetrator, who covered his face with a handkerchief,” said a police official. Before the burglar broke the locked drawers and stole 100g of gold and 150g of silver, he turned a camera so he would not be seen. However, another camera captured him, the official added.Bera told police he had received the gold from a jeweller in Panchmahal on July 3, to make ornaments from.Police said the burglar entered Soni’s shop by breaking the lock and a glass door. The thief stole silver items and ornaments worth Rs 45,000 from Soni’s shop. It was learnt that the thief also tried to break into Pratap Soni’s shop on the first floor, but was unsuccessful.Police have begun their investigation on the basis of footage. “We are not ruling out an insider being involved in the case. We will probe all the aspects of the case,” a police official said.

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