Miscreants on Saturday ransacked a medicine shop near the Maa Sarala Temple at Kanakpur in Tirtol of Jagatsinghpur district.
Besides, brutally assaulting the shop owner the goons looted Rs 42,000 cash and a gold chain.Later, the victim Bipin Bihari Das lodged an FIR with the Tirtol police alleging that six youths barged into his asked him for extortion money by brandishing a gun.
When he refused, the enraged miscreants brutally assaulted him, ransacked the shop and decamped with the cash and gold chain.. Basing on the complaint police have started an investigation but no arrests are yet to be made. Police said that the accused were residents of Kanakpur and have fled from the district. A special team has been formed to track and nab the offenders, said Tirtol PS IIC Krushna Prasad Mishra.