In a daring act ,a gang of 12 armed miscreants looted cash and ornaments worth Rs 2 lakh from three houses in village Kothi under the Pannak-Narayanpur police station last night ,police saidAccording to locals, the criminals armed with other traditional weapons, swooped on the village at about 10 pm in the night and looted houses of Meghu Mahto, Jageshwar Mahto and Sahdeo Mahto .Their looting spree continued till the wee hours .
The outlawed looted cash worth Rs 20,000 and gold jewelleries from the houses of all three villagers, police said.
According to information ,12 criminals ,belonging to the age group of 25 to 30 years ,two of them first barraged into house of Meghu Mahto at 10 pm while the few members of the family were sitting near door ,As rest of the miscreants were carrying knife and a pistol, the residents offered no resistance but criminals first assaulted them and the robbers looted cash and some gold jewellery from him .After then miscreants entered the house of Jageshwar Mahto and decamped with cash and jewellery and lastly looted the house of Sahdeo Mahto .
The police was making the preliminary investigations for filling an FIR in this connection.
KASMAR (BERMO )Dead body of a 25- year old youth who was missing from past a day was found near Naya-bandh between Chandariya and Parsatard in Durgapur village on Friday morning .Youth had been belonging to Parsatard village and his father name is Yogeshwar Mahto ,while youth identified as Surendra Kumar Mahto ,Officer-in charge Manoj Kumar Mahto said .
According to reports Surendra, resident of Parsatard village under the Kasmar police station limits in Bokaro district had gone somewhere yesterday night but did not return , His throat was slit open with sharp weapon and his body was traced in a sump in the village ,police said .Police are investigat matter .