A jewellery shop in Nilgiri market was looted by a gang of armed miscreants at gunpoint on Thursday evening.
They also lobbed crude bombs to scare the neighbouring shop owners before decamping with the gold jewellery worth about Rs 15 lakh and cash around Rs 50,000.
They were six and sped away towards Sergargh by bikes, said eyewitnesses. Although the police swung into action immediately after the incident, yet the goons are at large.
The police said that they were analyzing the CC TV footages of the shop as well as in the neighbouring shops and assured to nab the culprits soon.
“A case has been registered under Section 395 of IPC and Arms Act,” informed Nilgiri police station IIC Ramesh Singh.
However, another source pointed at the involvement of a local person.
The incident took place around 9 pm when the workers of the jewellery shop, Parbati Jeweller, were about to wind up, putting all the displayed jewellery of showcase in the locker, before closing the shop.The owner of the shop, Pradip Das, was in Baleswar town in connection with some jobs while the loot occurred.
Five goons while entered in the shop, only one of them was masked.