A man, who returned from Bengaluru, was sedated and looted while travelling in a car to his village in Kendrapada district from Bhubaneswar on February 1. The two miscreants who looted him had given him lift in the vehicle.
The matter came to light when victim Biren Kumar Parida of Olavar village under Ranjkanika block of Kendrapada district lodged an FIR at the Saheed Nagar police station here on Thursday.
As per the complainant, when he reached the bus-stop near Satsang Vihar here at around 6.15 pm on February 1, he learnt that he had missed the bus to his village. When he was waiting at the bus-stand, two persons came in a car and offered him a lift.
One of them said he was travelling to Guali village in Kendrapada district and he could drop Biren at his village, for which he could pay only Rs 200 as fare. Near the Mahanadi Bridge in Cuttack, they stopped the car and offered him a drink which was yellow in colour. Initially, he refused but when they insisted, he drank it.
After consuming the drink, which was actually spiked with some drug, Biren became unconscious. The miscreants thrashed him and took Rs 75,000 and other belongings from him. Later, they dumped him near Chhatia in Cuttack district. After he gained consciousness, he somehow managed to reach his home at Olavar on Wednesday.