An old man was looted of Rs 15,000 by a youth in Jagatsinghpur town. The septuagenarian victim Niranjan Behera from Rahadinga village lodged an FIR at the police station here on Thursday.
Behera had come to the UCO Bank branch to draw his pension. After withdrawing pension amounting Rs 15,000, he moved to Sanabazar to purchase fruits.
He met an unknown youth, who offered him a lift in the latter’s bike to his village. After moving a few km, the youth stopped his bike at Taradapada and told the old man that he had missed something in a shop and would go back to the town and return within two minutes.
Behera got down from the bike, after which the youth fled towards Jagatsinghpur town after taking Behera’s handbag which contained his pension money.
Basing on the victim’s complaint, police have started investigation.