Overview

• Unidentified intruders broke through the main gate and window grills of the unoccupied Tikona village farmhouse sometime between March 7 and July 18, leaving beds, a refrigerator and multiple CCTV cameras smashed.
• The burglars made off with ₹50,000 cash and one television set valued at about ₹7,000, while vandalising a second TV and other household items.
• Lonavala Rural Police filed an FIR on July 19 under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and deployed two specialized teams to spearhead the investigation.
• A forensic unit has seized the CCTV DVR and recovered two suspicious fingerprints that are now under analysis to establish the intruders’ identities.
• Investigators have yet to identify suspects or recover stolen property and are reviewing CCTV records and forensic leads to reconstruct the crime timeline.