An unidentified miscreant looted gold ornaments and `1,500 cash from a married woman who was staying in Capital hotel of the State capital in Mangalwara locality late on Monday night.
According to the police, the victim Kunja along with her husband Kailash Dhakar of Simariya village in Raisen district had come to Bhopal for appearing in the Diploma in Education (DEd) examination on June 15. The couple had checked in the hotel on June 15 and Kunja had appeared in the first paper on the same day.
At around 2.15 am, when the couple was in deep sleep, somebody knocked the door of room number 27, where they had stayed. Kailash woke up and opened the door considering that some hotel employee might have come, but as soon as the door was opened, a miscreant forcibly entered the room and overpowered him by taking out a knife.
When Kailash resisted, the offender attacked him and Kailash sustained minor injury in right arm. later, keeping the knife in his neck, the miscreant asked Kailash’s wife to remove gold ornaments from her body. While leaving with the gold ornaments, the offender also took away cash from the purse of the woman.
Soon after the incident, Kailash intimated the hotel management about the incident and later approached Mangalwara police for lodging a complaint. The police have registered a case under section 395 of the IPC and started investigation.
Preliminary investigation conducted so far suggested that the miscreant entered the hotel from the ground situated backside of the hotel. Police have launched a hunt for the miscreant on the basis of his description received from Kailash and his wife.