Dog in silent mode as Airtel General Manager burgled
By Mamta

The highly regarded Airtel GM Ashish Luthra and his wife Nandita - a corporate lawyer with Microsoft - had the shock of their life on July 27 when they woke up to discover that their entire ground floor has been ransacked by burglars in Gurgaon. An audit showed that they had lost 1 laptop, 2 Tag Heuer watches, 2 Mont Blanc pens, wine bottles and some cash.

Each Tag Heuer watch costs more than Rs. 1 lakh. The intruders had taken away a couple of Ashish’ suits from the wardrobe and his wife’s cell phone rendering the couple down by well over Rs. 3.5 lakhs.  What the burglars left were ordinary watches, credit and debit cards and a music system that they could not dismantle. They also targeted two more houses in the vicinity but could not find much except for a laptop and some clothing from there. 

A group of hi-profile and professional burglars broke into the house of this popular and respected couple under cover of darkness by yanking out the iron grill of the bathroom window and ‘selectively’ picked up the household articles. The couple was asleep on the first floor of their duplex house in Unitech’s posh Nirvana Township in Southcity Phase II in Gurgaon. Surprisingly, even their dog did not bark at the burglars to wake up the couple from their sound weekend sleep.  Nirvana is a gated community for the local elite and hosts many corporate honchos.

Visitors to Nirvana have to pass through at least two security checks to enter the township. The couple could not attend their offices on Monday and took time off to cooperate with the police officials who shockingly could not find a single fingerprint of the robbers.  According to the police officials, the burglars were not only experienced professionals but also very smart. They knew what sold well in the grey market and took away only the articles that could fetch them good prices. They were smart enough not to take away credit and debit cards as their use could lend the police clues about their movements.