Burglars decamped with seven government laptops meant for teaching purposes and ₹65,000 cash from the Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Katpadi in Vellore on Friday.Police said that as per routine, laptops were taken from the cupboard from the headmistress room in the school for computer science students before the laptops were kept in the cupboard again.Initial inquiry revealed that when the teachers went to take laptops from the cupboard on Friday, they found seven laptops were missing. Headmistress K. Sarla found that cash in the cupboard was also missing. The school, which has around 1,200 students, has a total of 16 laptops for teaching purposes.Based on an alert, Katpadi police inspected the spot with the help of fingerprint experts and sniffer dogs.. Police are also analysing CCTV footage from the school and surrounding areas to nab the suspects. A case was registered and further probe is under way. Published - May 30, 2026 12:53 am IST
Laptops, cash at stolen from Government Girls Higher Secondary school in Katpadi
Burglars stole seven laptops and ₹65,000 cash from Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Katpadi, Vellore.
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Thieves stole seven government teaching laptops and ₹65,000 cash from a girls' secondary school in Katpadi, India, leaving 1,200 students with under half the devices available. The incident highlights physical security gaps in public-sector device management, where shared uncontrolled storage creates single points of failure for entire hardware fleets.
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