Some unidentified miscreants looted Rs 50,000 from a bag of a person while he was donating blood in the local Blood Bank office in the premises of the MKCG Medical College and Hospital here on Wednesday.
Three persons, U Niranjan Patra, a resident of Brahmanigaon of Kandhamal district, along with two others, Biswamitra Tripathy and Papina Panda, of Gadarpur in the district, had come to the Blood Bank to donate blood for one of their patients. They kept their bag carrying cash of Rs 50,000 and went to donate blood. After donating blood, they found the cash missing from the bag.
On inquiry about the missing of the cash, the Blood Bank staff expressed their ignorance. Till this report was filed, no FIR had been lodged in this regard. Ironically, the CCTV installed in the Blood Bank is defunct, said the police.
In another incident, the Baidyanathpur police here has arrested a person from the new bus-stand area on Tuesday on the charge of burglary and forwarded him to court. The accused was identified as Ajay Kumar Sahu (34), a resident of Mahakalpada in Kendrapada district.
Mention may be made that Sahu had come to Brahmapur by a bus on April 19. He stole a carton carrying 123 new mobile phones from the same bus and managed to escape unnoticed. Based on the complaint filed by the owner of the mobile phones, the Baidyanthpur police registered a case, the investigation of which was on.