North India Statesman
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Bilaspur, August 14 (HS). A fake crime branch team raided the house of the priest of Kali Mandir in Sirgitti of Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh and took away a box containing Rs. 1 crore 30 lakh from the house. As soon as the information about the incident was received, the police reached the spot and started investigating the case.
According to the information, Krishna Kumar Mishra works as a servant in his Kali temple and also goes to other villages for worship related works. On 11th August, he had gone to Mundela village of Mohla near Rajnandgaon in connection with his work. During this, on 13th August, he got a call from home that some people entered the house in the name of Crime Branch and took away a box kept in the house by an acquaintance Vidya Prakash Pandey.
Pujari said that two women and four men held his wife, sister-in-law and family members present in the house and broke the box kept in front and then two people together took away the box. When he informed his acquaintance about the incident, he informed that the box contained Rs 1 crore 30 lakh which he had received after selling his land, after which Pujari complained about the incident to the police.
Bilaspur Additional SP Umesh Kashyap informed on Wednesday that according to the priest, his acquaintance Vidya Prakash Pandey, a resident of Sakri village, had kept a box in his house. Pandey had told the priest that there are some important items in this box and he will come back in a few days and take it back. But he had not informed the priest earlier that there was so much money in it. Now, after getting information about the incident, it has been revealed. Kashyap said that a case of theft has been registered in this matter. CCTV footage of this incident has come to light, on the basis of which investigation is being done in the case.
