Some unidentified bikers ran away with ornaments worth about Rs 50 lakhs from a jewellery shop situated in Sarangarh area, informed Superintended of Police Raigarh, Rahul Bhagat on Sunday.
The SP talking with The Pioneer over phone said that the incident happened around 8.30 pm on Saturday when the complainant and shop owner Murli Swarnkar was ready to go home after completing the business for the day. The lifting incident victim runs a small jewellery shop in Sarangarh area and after closing shop every day he carries back all the ornaments from shop to his home. “On Saturday, after closing the shop like other days he had kept the jewelleries in a bag for taking home.
While was closing the shutter he noticed that he had left something in the shop. He then went into the shop leaving the bag outside. Suddenly an unidentified person came at the spot and ran away with the bag on a bike,” said the SP. He further said that two persons were involved in the lifting incident. The exact value of ornaments is yet to be known as the jeweller has not been able to present proper documents related to the price of stolen ornaments. Informing about the progress made in investigations, the SP informed that “police have found the CCTV footages from the cameras installed in shop and based on the footages, we are trying to identify the culprits”.