patna while the kotwali police are still groping in the dark over theft of antiques from patna museum a burglary was committed in rangoli a cloth shopcumauthorised agent of paul merchant limited dealing with a usbased organisation western union located on fraser road late on thursday night the thieves took away rs 35 lakh cash from the shop belonging to one rajkumar agarwalagarwals elder brother vijay agarwal told toi that they had opened a counter at the shop for dealing with the customers whose money came from foreign countries through the agency he said the thief opened the shutter and grill of the extended shop with the help of keys and managed to sneak inside the main shop he then took the keys of the cashbox opened it and then escaped with the cashagarwal suspected the hand of one of his employees a resident of sitamarhi in the theft he said none of the locks were tampered and were opened with the help of keys in fact the thief knew that the cash is kept in the shop during ramazan and dussehra he also knew the place where the keys of the cash box was hidden agarwal saidto buttress his point he said the night guard amlesh kumar saw the thief escaping after scaling the boundary wall of the building in which the shop is located in fact it was the night guard who rushed to my residence at bander bagicha and informed us about the incident the description given by amlesh about the thief matched with the said employee he claimed adding that they later informed the kotwali police about the theftagarwal said when they visited the rented house of the said employee at chadmari road on friday morning they found the room locked the locals informed them that he had left for sitamarhi dsp law and order amar singh and kotwali police station officer incharge ajay kumar who visited the spot after getting information said the shop owner had lodged a complaint in this connection the involvement of the said employee could not be ruled out the oc said