Armed miscreants loot jewellery worth over Rs 12 Crore from gold showroom in Jajpur

Jajpur: Armed and masked miscreants reportedly looted jewellery worth over Rs 12 Crore from showroom in Odisha’s Jajpur districts this afternoon.

As many as seven miscreants reportedly reached the Senco Gold & Diamonds positioned at Vyasanagar in Jajpur Road. Two of them entered the showroom posing as shoppers. Later, they made phone calls to their employees members following which three others entered the jewellery showroom whereas two others had been standing open air.

All of a sudden, they attacked the protection guard and snatched his gun and threatened the employees with their weapons and looted the gold ornaments between 1.45 PM to 2.13 PM.

The theft from the showroom, which is positioned above the Hero bike showroom and reverse a petroleum pump, has left everyone stunned as a result of it occurred not solely in broad daylight however moreover from certainly one of many populated areas of town.

The looters, who fled the spot along with the exhausting disks of the CCTV cameras put in contained within the enterprise establishment, moreover allegedly attacked two employees as they protested the theft.

Sources said that the looters are assumed to be from open air the State as they’d been speaking in Hindi whereas threatening the employees of the Senco Gold & Diamonds showroom.

On being educated, a employees of police along with the Jajpur Superintendent of Police (SP) reached the spot and started an investigation into the matter.

Police even have started checking vehicles to trace the miscreants. Besides, they’re verifying the CCTV cameras put in near the jewellery showroom with the aim to find out the bikes the robbers used to loot the ornaments.

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