Three unidentified miscreants wearing masks on their faces entered into the house of a businessman at Padmavati Vihar in Damana square under Chandrasekharpur police limits and decamped with cash of Rs 12 lakh and 100 grams of gold ornaments in the wee hours on Friday.
The dacoity occurred at the rented house of Jiban Ballav Das, who runs an electrical equipment business in the city when he had gone to Bangalore for some business related work at around 2.30 am. Das’s wife Suchitra Sahu, father-in-law and son Aditya were fast asleep. The dacoits broke open the back door with help of a carpenter driller and a dagger to enter the house at plot no 172.
Failing to get the keys, the miscreants assaulted Suchitra and snatched away her gold ornaments along with mobile phone by threatening to kill her two sons.
later, the miscreants broke an almirah with the help of a driller and decamped with the cash and ornaments. They left the dagger and driller used in the crime.
However, Suchitra’s six-year-old son Aditya Jeevan who witnessed the crime that continued for twenty minutes informed police through land phone, while his mother was crying of pain and pleading for help. She has sustained minor injuries.
Aditya informed that the miscreants beat his mother and took away cash and gold ornaments. They were talking in Odia, Aditya informed the police over phone by dialing 100. On being alerted, police rushed to the spot but failed to nab the thieves.
“It is a difficult to track the miscreants as many unknown people are loitering in the area,” said the police and added that after an investigation, the whole thing will come out.