The thieves also appear to have planned the job with care. All six CCTV digital video recorders (DVRs), kept in a dedicated room inside the warehouse, had been taken away, leaving no immediate footage of who entered the building.
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Guwahati: Medicines valued at around Rs 6 crore were stolen in a night-time operation using two trucks from a pharmaceutical warehouse at Jatin Tamuli Path in the Nalapara-Sarusajai area of Guwahati on October 19. The theft came to light only after the premises were reopened following the Durga Puja break. Employees allegedly involved in the heist have since surrendered at Basistha police station.
The godown, located on the first floor of a building owned by R.K. Surana along National Highway 37, is used by Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited to store its stock. It remained shut from October 18 to October 21 for the festival holidays. When company officials opened the premises on the morning of October 22, they found that a large quantity of medicines had gone missing.
The thieves also appear to have planned the job with care. All six CCTV digital video recorders (DVRs), kept in a dedicated room inside the warehouse, had been taken away, leaving no immediate footage of who entered the building or how the consignment was moved out.
Rajendra Prasad Lhila, the power-of-attorney holder of the company, lodged a written complaint with the Officer-in-Charge of Basistha police station on October 22. The complaint spoke of "unknown culprits" and asked the police to recover both the stolen medicines and the missing DVRs.
The case took a sharp turn after the complaint was filed, when the staff members allegedly involved in the theft walked into Basistha police station and surrendered. They have reportedly claimed that the stolen consignment was sent across the border to Bangladesh. The claim is yet to be verified, and it was not immediately clear how the stock was transported or who received it.
Given the value of the haul and the alleged cross-border link, the case is likely to draw wider scrutiny, with investigators expected to trace the two trucks, question those who surrendered and establish the route the medicines took out of the city.
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