Car-borne thieves cut locks of liquor shops in Rudrapur, Kichha and Sitarganj in one night: about ₹1 lakh taken from a Rudrapur shop, ₹1.35 lakh in cash from two shops in Kichha

Car-borne thieves cut the locks of several liquor shops in Rudrapur, Kichha and Sitarganj between late Friday night and early Saturday and stole cash. According to Hindustan, ₹1 lakh in cash and three expensive bottles of liquor were stolen at about 1 am from a shop near the SSP's residence in Rudrapur; at 1:57 am the thieves took about ₹30,000 and bottles from the same trader's shop in Sitarganj, where the locks of six or seven nearby shops were also found broken. In Kichha, ₹40,000 was stolen from a shop on Bareilly Road (Pulbhatta police station) and ₹95,000 from a wine shop at Darau Chowk; at both places the thieves cut the locks with a cutter to get in. According to Dainik Bhaskar, the shops targeted in Rudrapur were at Preet Vihar, Kichha Road and Transit Camp. According to Hindustan, the same night the thieves also struck a liquor shop and a grocery shop in Haldwani. The thefts were caught on CCTV and police are using the footage to identify the thieves.