Five unidentified motorcycle-borne miscreants robbed Rs80,000 cash from Debendra Rath, a Village level Worker (VlW) of Sauri grama panchayat under Salepur block, on Wednesday.
Sources said that when Rath was carrying the money in his bike for distribution of old age, widow and other disability pension at Sauri grama panchayat, the miscreants came in two bikes and intercepted Rath near Dhabaleswar temple at Sisua. They later snatched away the money and bike from the VlW at gun point and fled away from the spot.
Action on an FIR, the Salepur police conducted investigation and recovered the stolen bike abandoned by the miscreants at Naiamuhan, informed Salepur PS IIC Prasant Majhi.