Thieves eat, smoke before cleaning up ₹28L jewellery from teacher's house as cops sleep

A gang of burglars had all the time in the world as they ate and smoked before decamping with gold and silver ornaments worth at least ₹28 lakh from a high school teacher's house in Paika Nagar area within Nayapalli police limits of the city in the small hours of Monday.

- ASISH MEHTA @Bhubaneswar

The anti-socials scaled the terrace of teacher Nirupama Sahoo's rented accommodation and entered into the house through the roof of the single-storied building. Then they used iron rods to break six cupboards and box beds where the jewellery were kept.

The stolen goods include 400 gram gold and 500 gram silver jewellery.