A youth looted his landlord of gold ornaments worth Rs 35 lakh and cash of Rs 2 lakh after making the victim and his family members unconscious by offering them spurious sweets at Bibiguda Colony in Malkangiri district on Monday evening.
According to reports, the tenant was staying in the house of the victim, a jewellery shop owner, for last three months. In the evening, he distributed sweets among family members of landlord and some neighbours telling them that he was happy to have got a job.
After consuming the sweets, all of them went into deep slumber in two hours. The accused then enteredhouse of landlord by breaking its door and decamped with gold ornaments and cash.