Marathi director Swapna Joshi's house was raided on Sunday, August 26. While her pet cat came to the rescue, it was only after the thief had managed to steal Rs 6000 from her Andheri flat. The entire thing was captured on CCTV and the incident prompted Joshi to file a police complaint and install safety grilles.
Swapna Joshi's flat was raided
According to reports in Times Of India, a man wearing a T-shirt and shorts scaled the drainage pipe to enter Marathi film director’s 3BHK home at Andheri, and entered through the window between 3.10 am and 3.30 am on Sunday. According to the CCTV camera footage, the man looks through stuff in the house as a pet cat looks on. Next, he takes a peek in the room of the director’s elderly mother, who is asleep on the bed, with her caretaker on the ground.
The thief ultimately enters the bedroom where the director's daughter and her husband are asleep. Here, he grabs a purse and pulls out Rs 6000 from it, but does not steal the laptop in the room. The director, in a statement to TOI, said, "Maybe it was the thought of juggling a laptop while sliding down the pipe…,"
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However, that is when the family's second cat which cannot mew got alerted, which woke up son-in-law, Deven and he spotted the intruder. This made the thief go down the same window without stealing anything else. The director called up filmmaker Ashoke Pandit to accompany her to Amboli police station, where she has lodged a police complaint. Joshi has also asked a fabricator to install safety grilles at entry points to the flat to avoid something like this happening in future.