IIFL Loot Row: 2 Jewellery Shop Owners Arrested

Cuttack (Reporters Today Bureau): The Commissionerate Police yesterday arrested owners of two jewellery shops here for their alleged involvement in the loot of gold and cash from finance company India Info Line Finance Limited recently.

The two accused are Saroj Prusty (45), owner of of Renuka Jewellers in Mangalabag and Lalit Soni (25), a resident of Alamchand Bazar  and the owner of Jasoda Jewellers at Purighat. The two are associates of Lala Amrut Sagar Ray, a staff of the IIFL and the mastermind of the loot.

Both the jewellery shop owners were later produced before court yesterday. Earlier on November 25,  police had arrested seven persons, including a woman employee of IIFL, for allegedly looting gold and cash from the finance company.