Sambalpur: A robber distracted a man by dropping Rs 500 note on the road and looted over Rs 3.5 lakh at Budharaja area here in this district Friday.
Based on a complaint from Siba Prasad Hota, Ainthapalli police registered a case.
The incident occurred when Hota was returning home on his bicycle after withdrawing money from a bank in Budharaja area.
Meanwhile, the robber, who might have witnessed Hota withdrawing money from the bank, played a trick by dropping a Rs 500 note on the road.
The robber then went to Hota and said that a Rs 500 note has fallen on the road. By the time Hota went to pick the note from the road, the robber fled the spot with the money bag from the bicycle.
The police have initiated an investigation while the CCTV camera footage at the bank is also being examined, sources said.
In a similar incident a few days ago, some unidentified miscreants had robbed a man of Rs 3.3 lakh inside the Union Bank in front of Puri Town Police station.
