In a daring act, miscreants looted around 3kg gold jewellery from City Chandan Shop, which is located only 50 metres from the Kharvela police station near the Master Canteen Square here on Wednesday night.
At around 9.30 pm on Thursday, when the security officials were preparing to down the shutter of the shop, five miscreants came in two bikes and entered into the jewellery shop pretending as customers.
Soon, they asked the staff members to be silent by showing revolvers and deadly weapons and then packed up gold ornaments from a self of the shop.
When the shop owner’s relative Rabindra Sahu opposed, the miscreants attacked him and fled from the shop with around 3kg gold ornaments, said a staff member of the shop.
However, on the way to Master Canteen, a miscreant asked his bike rider friend to stop the bike as a few gold ornaments dropped from his pant pocket. The miscreant got down from the bike and came back to collect the jewellery material. Meanwhile, local people gheraoed him while collecting the jewellery and beat him up black and blue.
The miscreant was taken to the Capital Hospital and later he was referred to the SCB Medical College and Hospital. The police reached the spot and seized a Pulsar bike.
The police on Thursday started a manhunt to nab the culprits involved in the loot case. Scientific team of the police is investigating into the case.According to the police, the CCTV cameras of the shop were switched off and alarm system of the shop was also not working during the loot.
So the lone looter nabbed by the locals is a great help for the police to find out other looters, said the police sources.An investigating team formed by the Commissionerate Police to probe the case has started interrogating the arrested looter.
From the preliminary investigation, the police found that four people were involved in the loot case. “We have received some clues from the arrested looter. On the basis of the information, we are trying to nab the other culprits,” said Bhubaneswar DCP Nitinjit Singh.