Ornaments worth Rs 10 lakh stolen in Patna from UCO Employee's Residence

PATNA: Gold ornaments worth Rs 10 lakh were stolen from the Shivpuri residence of Amita Mishra, a teacher of economics in B D College, under Shastrinagar police station on Friday afternoon.

Amita told TOI that she lives alone in the house as her husband, Gyan Prakash, working with UCO Bank, is posted in Gujarat and her daughter is in Canada for higher studies. She said she left her flat for her college at around 11 am on Friday. "I returned around 6 pm and found the latchet of main door broken and lights on," she said, adding both her almirahs were open.

She said that since she was arranging her daughter's marriage, she had purchased gold ornaments for her and kept them in the almirahs. "My daughter had also kept her ornaments with me as she had to leave for Canada," she said.

She suspected the hand of some insiders as they seemed to know where the keys of both the almirahs and ornaments were kept. The Shastrinagar police have started investigation into the incident.