colva varca village seems to be reeling under a spate of thefts with three incidents reported in the last two months the last two thefts occured in the span of a weekin the latest case unidentified miscreants decamped with rs 73000 in cash from the magsons store at varca early wednesday morningstore manager niklesh colvenkar in his complaint to the police said when the staff opened the store at 9am they were surprised to notice both the cash registers open and emptied out and their stock of contraceptives and cigarette packets missingthe miscreants entered the store through a ventilator which did not have grills the store also does not have security personnel on night dutysources said that two youth bent the external cctv camera before entering the store without realising that infrared cctvs were installed inside the store the duo first pocketed condom and cigarette packets and then pried open both cash registers and took rs 1500 from each counter they then entered the staff cum stock room from which they took rs 70000last saturday thieves had broken into balaji general store nect to the varca church by prying the shutter open and fled with cash of rs 50000 and packets of cigarettes in this case too cctv cameras installed by the church and the camera installed by other shops opposite the store were bent and angled away before the breakinin january this year a flat at varca was burgled and rs 40000 in cash was taken when the residents of the house were asleep in this case too the cctv cameras of two banks on the ground floor were angled awayin all the cases police employed sniffer dogs and fingerprint experts had lifted prints but with no successwhen questioned about the increasing number of thefts in the village colva police inspector melson colaco said his personnel were out all night carrying out nakabandi night checking of vehicles in the jurisdiction however sources at the colva police station told toi that they had stopped night patrols due to a shortage of personnelpi melson is confident of getting a breakthrough in the case as he has collected strong evidence