Two miscreants looted 160 grams of gold jewellery from an elderly couple after introducing themselves as policemen in Nabarangpur town on Wednesday.
Like any other day, P Laxman Rao (74) of Dasarapada and his wife P Jayalakshmi (70) were on their way to the Kanika Parameswara temple in the town by a two-wheeler. The motorcycle-borne miscreants intercepted the couple and introduced themselves as police officials.
Citing some investigation into a gold jewellery loot case, the criminals asked Jayalakshmi to keep the gold jewellery she was wearing in the dicky of the couple’s two-wheeler. Even one of them put the gold jewellery himself in the couple’s two-wheeler dicky.
When the couple reached the temple and opened the two-wheeler dicky, the jewellery was missing. The couple later filed a complaint in this regard at the Nabarangpur police station.