surat theft of rs 113 lakh from seven shops in bhatar area of the city in the wee hours of tuesday has shocked the shop owners the shops were located on the upper ground floor and mezzanine floor of ashirvad complex near uma bhavan on bhatar main road praful shah owner of one of the shops told police that he had left his shop at around 9 pm on monday other victims too had closed their shops at around 9 pm shah found the locks broken and shutters of his shop half open when he returned on tuesday morning the thieves stole rs 65000 cash from shahs shop and rs 48000 from others police are taking the statements of the watchman and the employees of the shops and also questioning some nearby shop owners police believe that some sophisticated tools must have been used by the thieves to break the locks of the shops