Moodbidri, Aug 19, 2013: Thieves who broke into the Laxmi Jewellers in the town on August 18, Sunday night, decamped with huge quantity of jewellery from the locker after breaking it open using a gas cutter.
The shop belonged to one Sridhar Acharya and the theft came to light when the shopkeeper arrived on Monday morning to open the shop.
In the meantime, it came to light later that the thieves who fled with the booty the previous night, abandoned two bags of jewels inside the compound of a house near Hanuman Temple on noticing an approaching police patrol vehicle. The police then seized the two bags of jewels and deposited the same in the station.
The thieves had also abandoned the gas cutter near the shop.