Lucknow: In a bizarre incident, Cadbury chocolate bars worth ₹17 lakh, about 150 cartons, were reportedly stolen from a godown in the Chinhat area of UP’s Lucknow, on the night between Monday and Tuesday.
Rajendra Singh Sidhu, a distributor for Cadbury, has filed an FIR at the Chinhat police station and urged locals to provide any inputs they have on the theft.
“We’ve filed an FIR in the Chinhat police station. If anyone has any input, please guide us,” news agency ANI quoted Rajendra Singh Sidhu as saying.
Sidhu who previously lived in the godown but has now moved into an apartment in Gomti Nagar.
In the FIR, Sidhu said that he was storing the chocolates in the old Chinhat house as a godown and he received a call on Tuesday from a neighbour notifying him that the door was broken.
The distributor arrived at the old house and discover that the entire godown was empty and that the thieves had also taken the security cameras. He informed the police that a neighbour had heard a pick-up truck in the middle of the night and believed Sidhu had arrived to take some stock. He speculated that the chocolates may have been transported via the truck ferry by the thieves.
Police are scanning the footage of other CCTV cameras installed in the area for some clues.
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