Cuttack: The city police are in a Catch-22 situation as their frantic chase after several miscreants involved in a daylight robbery of over two kilogram gold in April this year have yielded little results.
According to sources, two employees of a jewellery workshop at the Chemical Lane in Lalbag police limits carrying 2.2kg gold ornaments were going to a showroom at Jaunliapati on a Honda Activa vehicle April 9 when four desperadoes chased them.
At about 1pm, the anti-socials came closer to the jewellery workers and threw chilli powder on them. Blindeed by the hot chilli dust, the bikers fell off the scooter. Soon after, the miscreants decamped with the bag containing gold ornaments worth over `80 lakh along with the two-wheeler. And, all this happened in broad daylight and on a busy street in the Silver City.
Sourav Mukherjee, one of the workers, lodged a complaint with Lalbag police following which a case was registered and a probe began.
As part of the investigation, the police collected CCTV footage from cameras installed in the area and identified the miscreants. The vehicle they had abandoned alongside a road in Gurudijhatia area the next day was recovered. They failed to find the whereabouts of the culprits who fled the after the robbery. The cops are left with no clues whatsoever as to which direction the miscreants had come from.
The police made frantic searches atseveral places across the district and the neighbouring district Dhenkanal, but to no avail. Now, police teams who had fanned out into Kolkata and Rajasthan have come back without profit, prompting the citizens to question the efficacy of men in khaki. Lalbag police station IIC Debadutta Baral said, “Efforts are on to nab the miscreants involved in the loot.”
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