On Saturday night, miscreants broke open the locks of a back shutter of a shop of Tata Sponge Employees Consumers’ Cooperative Society at Bilaipada under the Joda Police Station limits and burgled cash of Rs 50,000.
Sources revealed that the co-operative shop is managed by three co-partners and two salesman closed it at about 10 pm. Ramesh Kumar Sahu, one of the co-partners, had left for his residence after keeping the cash in a drawer and closing the shutter of the shop as usual.
However, on Sunday morning at about 9 am, when he opened the shop and cash counter, he found that the cash was missing. On checking he found that the lock of back side door was open.
He immediately informed to the security staff watching in front of the shop besides that of the nearby police beat.
Beat in- charge Lalit Kumar Das who came for inquiry found that the thieves had entered into shop from the back side by breaking the shutter.
The thieves reportedly had left the broken luck and shovels including other materials which had been used to break the luck and shutter.
Now the security staff who stood guard in the area are under scanner.
Sources informed that on the fateful night, besides the patrolling staff , four security guards were on duty at the entry point of Tata Sponge colony where the co- operative store is located.