Unidentified miscreants on Wednesday looted away Rs 57,000 by breaking a side box of a motorcycle at Jagannathpur Bazaar under Raghunathpur block.
According to information, Abhimanyu Behera, a resident of Gothapada village under Biridi block, had withdrawn Rs 57,000 from a bank in Raghunathpur and kept the money in his motorcycle side box.
While on the way back home, he parked the motorcycle in front of a hotel and went to a shoe shop at Jagannathpur. When returned from shop, he was stunned to see that the side box was broken and emptied.
He has lodged an FIR in the Raghunathpur police station in this regard.