Thief kills himself in house which he had broken into; family was on Europe trip

BENGALURU: In an unusual incident, a thief committed suicide just outside the puja room of a house which he had broken into to steal. The house owner’s family was away on a vacation in Europe.

The incident took place in Indiranagar on Friday evening and the thief was identified as Dilip Bahadur (46), who hailed from Assam.

The thief broke into the house belonging to a techie in Indiranagar and stayed until evening. He even took a bath and searched the whole house. The techie’s family returned home that evening from their Europe trip and found the thief’s body hanging from a ceiling fan near the puja room.

Dilip had been arrested by the police in a theft case that was reported in Jeevan Bima Nagar in 2006.

Indiranagar Police have registered a case of suspicious death and further investigation is on.