Burglars decamped with liquor bottles, with an estimated worth of ₹1.5 lakh rupees, from a Tasmac outlet in Melpatti village on Wednesday. 

The police said that the outlet supervisor V. Subash, 38, and other staff opened the outlet around noon and saw the lock at the entrance of the outlet damaged. The staff also found several racks of liquor bottles stolen. Hard disks of CCTV cameras fixed inside the outlets were missing and the cameras were damaged.

They alerted Pernambut police, who took CCTV camera footage along the route where the shop was located. A case was registered. A probe is under way.