Our Correspondent
MANGALDAI: Though security arrangements have been intensified in the district in view of the Republic Day celebration, unidentified miscreants looted a premier educational institution and a temple at the district headquarters town. In the first incident, miscreants reportedly stormed into the campus of Mangaldai Town Boys’ Lower Primary school located along the NH-15 within 50-metre radius of the Mangaldai Police Station and official residences of the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police. The burglars looted a sound system, a camera and a radio set before breaking the locks of the steel almirah and eight other rooms and vandalized the official documents and materials.
In the other incident, miscreants looted cash from the donation boxes of all the four temples of different deities in the premier temple of Goddess Kali located at a distance of nearly 200 metres from the institution of the earlier incident.
According to members of the temple management committee, all the locks of the donation boxes of the temple were broken and around Rs 6,000 cash along with a music system were looted. Both the school authority and temple management committee lodged complaints in the Mangaldai Police Station on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the school authority of Mangaldai Town Boys alleged before mediapersons that the police team arrived in the school after nearly one-and-half hour of lodging the FIR. Similarly, even after three hours of filing complaint, the police team allegedly failed to arrive at the temple premises.
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