3 days ago
Burglars loot over Rs 10L from house in Rourkela
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Rourkela: Thieves looted valuables worth over Rs 10 lakh from a house in Rourkela's Sector-8 on Friday evening when the family was away attending Rath Yatra. The house owner, Suresh Chandra Sahoo, reported that he and his family left their residence around 4 pm to participate in the celebrations and had locked the house before leaving.
However, upon returning around 8 pm, they discovered the main door lock was broken and the house ransacked. Burglars had forced open an almirah and stolen gold and silver jewellery along with Rs 50,000 cash, which was saved for Sahoo's daughter's upcoming wedding.
A complaint was filed at Sector-7 police station by 11.30 pm the same night. On Saturday, a scientific team conducted a detailed examination of the crime scene. Inspector in-charge of the Sector-7 police station R N Patra said, "We are trying to obtain CCTV footage from the locality to identify the culprits."
