Another burglary in Cuttack

Barely a week after armed robbery in the house of a former Orissa High Court Judge in CDA area of Cuttack city, dacoits broke into the house of an advocate in the same locality and looted valuables and cash, the police said today.
The burglars broke into the house of High Court advocate Ajay Mohanty in CDA sector-11 last night. His house is situated close to the office of the ACP and the house of Justice (rtd) P K Mohanty, whose house had been burgled in the wee hours of May 30, they said.
As there was no one in the house last night, burglars broke open the iron grills and entered the premises and decamped with valuables including gold and silver ornaments, household goods and cash, police said.

Mohanty's family members claimed that cash amounting to Rs 60,000 and gold and silver jewellry worth lakhs of rupees were missing.
Doors of six rooms in the house have been broken open and cupboards ransacked.
The incident took place barely a week after a gang of armed dacoits allegedly robbed retired High Court judge Mr Justice Pradyumna Kumar Mohanty's house in the wee hours of May 30.
Mohanty is currently heading the Judicial Commission of Enquiry probing the Pipili gang rape and murder incident of 2012.
The dacoits after tying the 70-year-old Mohanty, his wife and daughter-in-law in a room broke open the shelves and decamped with cash and jewelleries worth over Rs 50 lakhs, police said adding that the dacoits escaped with Mohanty's car that was later traced near Rasulgarh, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.