Lightning might not strike the same place twice, but burglars do. Ask Srinivas, a software engineer whose house in KR Puram was burgled for the second time in 50 days on Monday.

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Srinivas works for an IT company at ITPL and stays in a rented house at Ayyappa Nagar, KR Puram. On Friday, he locked his house and left for his hometown, Chikkaballapur. On Monday morning, he got a call from his neighbours, who told him his house had been burgled.

Srinivas told dna that the burglars got entry into his house by breaking open the back door. He said that on March 31 this year, burglars had looted his house by breaking open the main door. His father Venkatarayappa is a head constable, working with Chikkaballapur district SP office.

Lamenting the second burglary in his house in 50 days, Srinivas said he and his family had left the house on Friday. He visited the house on Sunday morning, after which he went back to Chikkaballapur, only to get a call from his neighbours the next day about burglary. He said the burglars made away with a laptop, wrist watch, Rs7,000, silver articles and credit and debit cards.

He said that in the March 31 burglary (then too he had locked his house and gone out of the city), the culprits decamped with 28 silk sarees, Rs50,000, two wrist watches, a gold ring and some silver articles. He rued that his house got burgled even as the police were yet to solve the first burglary.

Srinivas said his neighbours told him that they saw two youth moving suspiciously around his house on Monday morning. KR Puram police surveyed the house after the burglary and collected some fingerprints and other evidence. A police inspector said they have taken a serious note of the incident as the house has been burgled twice in less than two months

Srinivas alleged that more than eight houses have been burgled in the locality in the past few months.