Indore:
More than half a dozen masked men entered the home of Madhya Pradesh Congress President Jitu Patwari on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. The gang cut electricity, ransacked the property, and prowled through the Bijalpur neighbourhood in Indore’s Rajendra Nagar for nearly two and a half hours, leaving residents terrified and the political establishment rattled.
The intruders struck with precision. At around 2 am, they cut the electricity supply to Mr Patwari’s house, plunging the premises into darkness and disabling CCTV cameras installed inside. With faces covered, the gang forced its way in, breaking drawers and lockers in the office section of the home. Curiously, they left behind mobile phones and valuables, raising suspicions that the raid was not a typical robbery but something far more sinister.
The attackers did not stop at Mr Patwari’s residence. In their two-and-a-half-hour rampage, they targeted at least three more homes in the vicinity, including those of Nagar Panchayat CMO Rajkumar Thakur, MPEB officer Narendra Dubey, and the Arya family in Punasa. In each case, the burglars cut through window nets and attempted to break in. Terrified families woke up to find their homes vandalised.
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