pune murtuza dawoodwala can hardly believe his ill luck his cellphone shop on mg road near pulgate has been burgled twice once in 2007 and then again early on friday the thief picked up 60 smartphones worth rs 75 lakh after breaking the shutters locks using a cutter on friday he left behind the empty cartons the theft came to light after an employee arrived to open the shop at 9am senior inspector barkat mujawar of the cantonment police station said the shops cctv has captured the suspects image but he had his face covered we suspect the involvement of a known person we are in the process of identifying the suspect he added sunil pawar senior inspector of pune crime branch unit iii who is conducting parallel investigations said the footage shows that the suspect clad in a shirt and trousers surveyed dawoodwalas shop at 5am and returned half an hour later he broke the central lock of the shutter with a sharp object and then the two locks on the side he walked out after 30 minutes the images are blurred we suspect the involvement of local criminals dawoodwala and his friend zoher harnesswala have sourced footage from three other business establishments as well the man also stole rs 25000 from the cash counter we dont suspect our employees we have handed over the cctv footage capturing the images of the suspect who fled on a motorbike with his aide police have also collected fingerprints from the shop he added in 2007 handsets worth over rs 6 lakh were stolen by an unidentified man who also broke the shutters the cantonment police had registered a complaint but the case has not been solved we did not have a cctv camera in the shop then in another case 13 handsets worth over rs 3 lakh were stolen by unidentified people who also broke the shutters locks of a cellphone shop in kalyaninagar on august 30 shop owner omkar rathi 39 of hadapsar has registered a complaint with the yerawada police station we suspect the involvement of an interstage gang the cctv camera has captured the images of four suspects we are working on some clues pawar added a case under sections of indian penal code was registered sub inspector dattatraya nikam is investigatingcellphonethefts may 16 two men broke into a shop on karve road in kothrud and made away with cash and 132 cellphones collectively worth rs 2310 lakh the kothrud police have cctv camera footage which shows two men standing near the shop with their faces covered may 17 twentyone cellphones and four tablets collectively worth rs 625 lakh were stolen from a shop on fc road may 30 two unidentified men broke into a cellphone shop in sadashiv peth and made away with 135 handsets worth rs 1363 lakh police have got the cctv footage of two men entering the shop and fleeing with the goods august 30 thirteen handsets worth over rs 3 lakh were stolen