Armed miscreants looted gold ornaments from a jewellery shop in the bustling CDA Sector-6 area under the Markat Nagar police station here on Wednesday evening.
Sources said that four persons arrived in a car and two of them entered the jewellery shop around 9.30 pm. They brandished guns and looted gold ornaments worth over Rs 2.5 lakh.
While the looters were trying to flee from the spot in the car, one of them failed to board the vehicle and was nabbed by locals, who roughed him and handed him over to police. He was identified as S Surya Rao (27) of Ganjam district.
The Markat Nagar police started investigation into the incident. Preliminary investigations revealed that members of the looter gang are natives of Ganjam district and they had procured the arms from Bihar, police sources said.
Efforts were on to trace and apprehend others involved in the robbery by scrutinising the CCTV footages of the
jewellery shop.