Another Series Of House Break-Ins In Owners’ Absence In Odisha Capital

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha capital reported another series of loot from an apartment at Gadakana in Odisha capital on Monday night.

According to sources, robbers broke into five locked flats in the apartment and decamped with cash and gold ornaments around 3 am. Following a complaint, Mancheswar police reached the spot and started an investigation this morning on the basis of available CCTV footage. Scientific teams are being called in to collect evidence.

Details of items sold are yet to be ascertained.

A resident of the apartment said that around four to five miscreants targeted five flats after entering the premises from the back gate but could break into four and looted cash and jewellery. They also consumed juice stored in refrigerator at one of the flats.

An inter-state gang that is active in the smart city is believed to be behind the loot, the sources added.

This came a day after miscreants broke open an ATM of a nationalised bank near Lingaraj Temple here, using a gas cutter, and stole around Rs 10 lakh from the cash dispenser.

Gadakana incident is also the latest in a series of house break-ins in the capital in the recent past with around 40 burglaries reported in the last three months. Similar loot incidents were from an apartment Patharagadia in Infocity area of the city in October with burglars mostly targeting locked flats and houses.

On December 7, miscreants targeted another locked house at Lingaraj Vihar under Airfield police limits. A retired Judge, the owner of the two-storey building, had rented out the ground floor of the house while he stayed on the first floor. While the Judge had gone out of the country, his tenant, who works in Bhubaneswar airport, was away at his job.

Last month, eight armed dacoits looted cash and jewellery worth over Rs 6 lakh from a house at Raghunathpur in Nandankanan area here after tying up the family members with ropes and locking them in their bathroom.