Unidentified miscreants looted Rs 45,000 cash after breaking open a Scotty dicky in Tarikunda Bazar on Tuesday.
The victim teacher, Sarat Chandra Nayak, from Rambhadeipur High School on Tuesday was returning to his village after withdrawing Rs 45,000 from the PNB Jagatsinghpur branch, accompanied by his son when it began raining. The father son duo parked the Scooty near a watch shop in Tarikunda Bazar and entered into the shop. However, when on subsiding of rain they came outside, to their utter surprise they found the dicky was broken and the cash gone.
They complained before the police at Tarikunda outpost. The police meanwhile launched a probe after taking CC footage of the watch shop. Nobody was arrested, informed outpost in charge Banamali Behera.