Bhubaneswar, Feb. 10 -- Marriage season is around the corner and the hosts need to be careful as miscreants posing as baraatis might decamp with valuables from marriage mandaps. The advisory assumes significance as miscreants have decamped with gift items and cash worth Rs 5 lakh from a mandap at Badagada areain Bhubaneswar.

The video of the entire loot has been captured in the CCTV cameras installed at the mandap.

"The miscreants entered the venue from the main gate when the baraatis entered the mandap. They were dressed nicely as other baraatis and escaped from another side by scaling the boundary wall," said the mandap manager.

The manager further said that the backside gate was open as there was a provision for washing utensils. In...