Nizam Museum: Gold Tiffin Box, Saucer, Cup Get Stolen, Probe Underway in Hyderabad
The galleries at the museum stock silver and gold artefacts and replicas of landmark constructions.
Hyderabad, September 4: A tiffin box, saucer, cup and spoon made of gold were stolen from Nizam Museum (HEH Nizam's Museum) in Mir Chowk Police Station limits on Sunday. The incident came to the light, when the security guards at the Nizam's Museum in Hyderabad were doing the rounds on Monday morning, and they realised that few of the gold items were missing.
A case has been registered, an investigation is underway to search for the culprits. Officials suspect that the incident took place on Sunday night when burglars broke into the museum and entered through the iron grill on the first floor.
"The ventilator on the first floor was broken open and the burglars gained entry using a rope. They made away with a gold tiffin box, a cup studded with rubies, diamonds and emeralds, a saucer and a spoon," news agency PTI quoted police as saying. Nizam's Museum, also known as His Exalted Highness (HEH) Nizam's Museum is home to several gifts received by Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, ruler of Hyderabad between 1911 and 1948 until the time it was annexed by India.
The galleries at the museum stock silver and gold artefacts and replicas of landmark constructions.
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