Overview
- Police arrested two people in Madurai on Saturday, Nov. 14, in connection with a multi‑crore burglary at a newly opened Tanishq showroom where CCTV showed a masked intruder gaining access through a lift‑shaft/terrace opening.
- In Katni, investigators recovered a gas cutter, oxygen and LPG cylinders and collected about 265 fingerprints after burglars drilled through a rear wall and spent nearly an hour removing display items from a Kisna showroom.
- Officers in both cities have seized CCTV, deployed sniffer dogs and forensic teams, formed special investigation units and are using phone‑signal and surveillance checks to trace other suspects and routes of escape.
- Estimates of stolen value and weight differ across reports—from several crores to claims of double‑digit kilograms—but police and shop owners say final loss figures await formal inventories and audits.
- Authorities say the cases exposed specific security failures: alarms left off, scaffolding and incomplete locker fit‑outs creating access points, and investigators are questioning employees and contractors to check for inside help and to tighten protocols.