Unidentified miscreants allegedly looted cash over Rs 3 lakh from the Siddha Mahavir temple in the Talabania police station area here late on Monday night.
Sources said the miscreants broke open the door of the temple and looted the cash from a donation box kept in the temple. Later, a complaint was lodged at the local police station in this connection.
The police, after preliminary investigations, detained two persons on Tuesday and began interrogating them. “There is no CCTV camera installed inside the temple. However, we investigating the incident,” said a police official.