coimbatore sulur has witnessed two breakins in as many days with unidentified miscreants targeting a wholesale steel shop at kannampalayam area on monday night and a house at kangeyampalayam on sunday nightwhile miscreants took away rs 250 lakh from the shop premier steel the house was looted of gold ornaments weighing 25 sovereigns a television and a microwave ovenaccording to police the wholesale steel shop belonged to m jayaraj 58 of chinthamanipudhur on monday night jayaraj reportedly shut the shop around 7pm and left for his house when he came to the shop on tuesday morning he found that the lock was broken open as he entered inside he found that rs 250 lakh was missing from the locker which was opened using its key an investigating official told toijayaraj immediately informed the police who pressed fingerprint experts and a dog squad into service the police suspect that the theft might have taken place when the security guard fell asleep also the locker was not broken open the robber took the key from a table draw and used it to open the locker the cctv camera at the shop was nonfunctional and we are yet to get any lead the investigating official said the shop the official said has in total 9 employeesthe house at kangeyampalayam was meanwhile burgled when its owner n rangasamy 65 a retired official had gone to his native village at kodumudi on sunday when he returned on monday morning he found that the front door was broken open and gold ornaments weighing 25 sovereigns television and a microwave oven were missing from the house a police official said in both the cases victims have lodged their complaints with the sulur police station superintendent of police paa murthy said they had formed special teams to nab burglars twenty days ago we nabbed a big gang and recovered 57 sovereigns gold we are confident that we can solve these cases as well at the earliest we have beat officers who are taking several preventive measures he said