Two folks have been arrested for stealing wood chairs from Punjab University on Friday evening in concern of getting heritage furnishings. Police stated Vinod Jaswal (40), an auto driver, was arrested with two chairs in his auto within the forest space behind Punjab University (PU). His aide was arrested after questioning on Saturday.
Last month, chairs had been stolen from PU’s University Business School. PU chief safety officer Vikram Singh stated, ‘We had been knowledgeable of the restoration of two broken wood chairs created from two thieves. Chairs had been stolen from the UBS division. We are but to look at the recovered chairs because the particular person involved at UBS was not accessible. On Sunday we are going to go to the police station and test whether or not the recovered chairs are heritage or easy furnishings.
Sources stated that the chairs had been stolen from the UBS constructing a fortnight in the past and so they had been saved in a secluded place behind the PU. He stated that Vinod Jaswal is the provider of stolen property.
SHO PS11 Inspector Ranjodh Singh stated, “His colleague was arrested throughout interrogation of Vinod Jaswal. More folks could also be concerned within the incident. The autorickshaw during which the chairs had been being carried has been seized. Vinod Jaswal was apprehended by vigilant PCR personnel, together with constable Shankar Kumar. During the interrogation, Vinod Jaswal grew to become nervous and tried to run away. After this, he was chased and caught. Meanwhile his associate managed to flee however was later arrested.
In latest occasions, a number of incidents of theft of furnishings gadgets together with heritage furnishings from Punjab University have come to gentle. In November final yr, 48 heritage chairs had been stolen from the Sociology Department of PU. The involvement of a gang led by Sarfaraz, a carpenter from Zirakpur, was revealed to have hyperlinks with the folks of Mumbai. The crime department of the UT police busted the gang. Later, all 48 stolen heritage chairs had been recovered. As of now, no progress has been made in figuring out Sarfaraz’s Mumbai-based associate.
At least 36 of the 48 chairs recovered had been saved within the seminar corridor of the college’s sociology division, once they had been stolen, with two chairs on the primary flooring and 10 chairs in a room on the second flooring She had gone. Department. The thieves stole chairs designed particularly by French architect Pierre Jeanneret.
Sources stated there are just a few legacy chairs stolen from the PU.
In 2016, the Directorate of Intelligence Revenue (DRI) arrested US-born Indian-origin businessman Vijay Nanda for smuggling out of the country-owned furnishings belonging to the French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
