Thieves kill jeweller’s son, looted jewellery worth Rs 50 lakh in Kalka
A 19-YEAR-OLD youth, son of a jewellery shop owner, was murdered allegedly by three persons, who fled after looting jewellery worth Rs 50 lakh from the shop in Kalka late evening on Monday.
Shubhanshu Verma, 19, was the youngest son of Jagdish Verma whose jewellery shop is located in the main market of Kalka. The family has run the shop for the past few generations, after they took it on rent from a Shimla-based businessman. The alleged thieves took all the jewellery items, which included nearly 1.25 kg gold and 9 kg silver, totally worth around Rs 50 lakh.
The incident took place around 1:40 am, when Shubhanshu was sleeping inside the shop on a mattress with the AC on and the shutters of the shop were down. There were six CCTV cameras installed inside the shop, of which only three recorded the incident. The others were either damaged or their direction were changed by the suspects, the police said.
