PUNE: At 5am on Monday, the four men in tracksuits at the Datta Mandir chowk at Vimannagar looked every bit fitness-seekers getting their dose of exercise even before the break of dawn. Two of them were stretching apparently to cool down while the other two appeared exhausted as they held an open bedsheet between them while squatting outside a mobile phone shop.The bedsheet ensured that other joggers and people out on their walk did not notice anything amiss. Behind it, two more men were at work, busy cutting the shutter locks of the shop. Soon, when the coast was clear, all six men slipped into the shop by pulling up the shutter a bare minimum. Within an hour, they stole 93 cellphones, eight demo cellphones, Rs 39,000 in cash as well as the digital video recorder (DVR) of the CCTV cameras in the shop, collectively worth Rs 19.55 lakh.The theft came to light around 9.30am when the shop owner, Bhavesh Solanki (38), of Shivajinagar found the locks broken. He lodged a complaint with the Airport police.PSI Anandrao Pingle told TOI that Solanki found empty boxes of mobile handsets scattered all over the shop and the DVR and Rs 39,000 kept at the counter stolen. The police learnt of the fitness trick that the burglars had adopted while going through CCTV footage obtained from neighbouring shops.The police have launched a search to trace the burglars. “We are working on some clues,” Pingle said.Three other burglaries were also reported on Monday in other parts of the city. Burglars broke the locks of a dairy at Budhwar Peth in the early hours and stole Rs 60,000 cash. Dairy owner Lakhan Kolhe lodged a complaint with the Vishrambaug police. In the other incident, burglars broke into a flat at Parimal housing society in the Deccan area, again in the early hours, and took gold and silver ornaments and cash, totally worth Rs 68,000. The flat-owner, Nitin Bhalerao, lodged a complaint.Between 10am and noon, burglars struck at the residence of Akash Dhavare at Harihareshwar Society in Dhayari and took 80gm gold ornaments worth Rs 2.43 lakh. The Sinhagad road police are investigating.