Bhubaneswar: Unidentified miscreants looted cash and other valuables worth over `8 lakh from a house at Kanan Vihar, Phase-I in Patia area here late Tuesday night.
According to sources, one of the miscreants broke into the house at around 2.30am by cutting open the window grilles with a gas cutter. Later, he opened the front door and helped his other associates to enter.
The miscreants tied up the family members and gagged them by holding a six-month-old at knife-point. The miscreants then looted jewellery worth `7 lakh, cash and mobile phones. They stayed in the house for more than an hour.
The owner of the house, Amit Das, a faculty at the National Institute of Fashion Technology here, has lodged a complaint with the police and investigation has started. Bhubaneswar deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Anup Sahu also visited the house personally to take stock of the situation.
Burglars raid house in Patia, loot Rs 8 lakh
