A burglar was full of remorse after 'mistakenly' targeting a retired military officer's residence that he wrote an apology on the wall, quoting a Biblical commandment. The police, however, were not amused and have launched a search for him. Police claimed nothing was found missing. The incident occurred on Tuesday night. "Had I come to know that it was a military personnel's house, I would not have targeted it," he wrote, expressing his respect for the Indian military.

"I didn't know it was an Army man's residence. I came to know only in the last moment when I saw the military cap. Apologies!" the thief wrote on the wall using a marker, a police officer told PTI. The retired colonel and his family is out of station for the past two-and-a-half months. A woman engaged by the family to clean the premises of the house at Thiruvankulam near Thrippunithura found the doors broken open this morning and alerted police.