The staff of the Tasmac retail shop (4004) in Villiyampakkam village near Chengalpattu, had closed the shop and went home late on Thursday late night. On Friday morning, it was the local people who noted a hole in the rear wall of the building. They immediately alerted the police, and also the Tasmac employees. A team of personnel from the Chengalpattu Taluk station arrived at the spot and found that the hole was drilled by burglars, who escaped with the liquor bottles kept inside the shop.