Unknown miscreants looted an elderly couple of jewelleries worth one and half lakh rupees on Samaleswari express train after offering them biscuits laced with sedatives, police said. The incident came to light after railway cops spotted them in an unconscious condition at Jagdalpur Railway station and immediately shifted them to the local hospital for treatment.
Police said, M.M.Das and his wife Shila, native of Jharkhand were coming to the house of their son Sunil Das who works in the State-run public enterprise National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC). At least three miscreants allegedly climbed into their compartment and develop friendship with the couple. After taking them into confidence, they allegedly offered them some biscuits. The couple ate the biscuits without knowing that they were laced with sedatives.
The couple later became unconscious. The miscreants allegedly dumped the couple in the same condition at the Railway station where the train reached at mid night and fled with their belongings which include gold jewelleries worth Rs 1.5 lakh and their mobile phones. Based on the complaint lodged by the couple who regained sense after about 12 hours, police launched the investigation.
The couple has also received injuries, police said. It was not clear if the police managed to arrest anybody in connection with the loot.