KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Oct 31: Criminals decamped with cash and ornaments worth over Rs 15 lakhs from two houses and stabbed a woman in separate places in the steel city during the concluding day of Chhat Puja early on Monday morning.
The places where the thefts were committed fall under the Sidhgora and Telco thana areas, while the stabbing incident during an abortive bid of chain-snatching took place under the Parsudih thana area.
In Sidhgora, police constable Upendra Singh had come out of his residence with his family for offering early morning Arghya to the Sun God at the Subernarekha Pump-house Chhat Ghat in Sakchi. However, on returning home at 7:30, he found his door (that he had put under lock and key) open and Rs 60,000 cash along with gold ornaments worth over Rs 10 lakhs missing from the house.
Singh, who is posted at the Police Control Room had kept the cash in a steel almirah and gold ornaments in more than one box cotes before stepping out of home at about 3:30 am.
The helpless constable was left with no option but to lodge an FIR with the Sidhgora thana against unknown thieves leading the police to start the investigation.
In another incident, Amarendra Kumar Tiwari, who is an employee of Jemco Company in the Telco thana area was visiting relatives in Baridih since Sunday evening for Chhat celebrations. Up on returning home in the morning, he found his house burgled and cash and jewellery worth over Rs five lakhs gone missing.
Tiwari then approached the Telco thana to lodge an FIR against the unknown, prompting the police to swing into action.
In yet another incident, a 30-year-old woman was going to a Chhat Ghat in Parsudih at 5 am from her Barigora house in Parsudih. On the way near the Barigora Hari Mandir, four youths surrounded the victim, asking her to part with a gold chain on her neck. As the miscreants failed to snatch the chain, one of them took out a knife and ran it by the victim’s face.
The victim was subsequently rushed to the Khasmahal Sadar Hospital where she had to undertake an X-ray beside the other lines of treatment.
City SP in-charge, Mukesh Lunayat while talking to lagatar24.com said that he was looking into all the crimes committed in the city during the Chhat on Monday, adding that they would try to detect the cases soon.
