Jewellery worth Rs 90 lakh looted at Khagaul in Patna

PATNA: Four armed criminals looted jewellery worth around Rs90 lakh from a showroom at Jairam Bazaar under Khagaul police station in

Patna district

around 3pm on Tuesday.

The criminals thrashed jewellery showroom owner

Sujeet Kumar

when he had tried to resist. They also took away the DVR of CCTV cameras installed inside and outside. The criminals had covered their faces with mufflers and clothes.

Sources said the showroom is around 250 metres away from Khagaul police station. Sources said all the police personnel were busy at nearby

Kothwan

where MLC Ritlal Yadav’s daughter is to get married in the night.

The shopowner told the media that criminals were speaking in a dialect different from the one used in Patna area. “They had earlier come around 11am and asked to purchase jewellery for marriage. I told them to come later. The estimated cost of looted jewellery is around Rs90 lakh,” he said.

SSP

Upendra Kumar Sharma

reached the spot. SHO Mukesh Kumar Mukesh said the criminals had come on foot and sprayed some anaesthetic agent on Sujeet, who remained unconscious for over 2 hours.