Ludhiana, Sept. 16 -- A gang of burglars allegedly broke into at least six houses in the neighbourhood late Sunday night in Atal Nagar, stealing at least 10 mobile phones and around Rs.50,000 in cash. Victims claim the burglars sprayed an unknown intoxicating substance, leaving them unconscious and waking up only on Monday morning.

Sahul Kumar, a factory worker and resident of Atal Nagar, on Monday morning, he learned from neighbours that several homes in the locality had been targeted. Upon inspecting his house, Sahul discovered his mobile phone and cash, hidden in his trousers, had vanished. The trousers were later found abandoned in a nearby vacant plot.

"I felt extreme dizziness and heaviness in my head," said Sahul, suspecting that...