The Sahadevkhunta police on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old person on the charge of looting gold ornaments and other valuables from his relative’s house in the Jail Road area here
The accused was identified as Ramesh Sethi. Ramesh is distant maternal uncle of Prasant Sethi, the complainant. On January 1, 2018, Prasant with his family went to the Tarini Temple in Keonjhar and had requested his uncle, Ramesh, to guard his house at the Jail Road.
But taking advantage of the family, Ramesh broke the cupboard and stole all the gold ornaments and hid them somewhere else. On his return, Prasant was astonished to see that the ornaments were stolen. He lodged a complaint at the police station against Ramesh.
The police recovered the stolen goods from Ramesh’s possession and arrested and court-forwarded Ramesh, informed Sahadevkhunta PS IIC Paresh Rout.