Bhubaneswar, March 20 -- Thieves have allegedly turned their focus on temples in Odisha. In a single day, two temples were burgled and over Rs 27 lakh cash was looted from their hundis (donation boxes).

As per reports, thieves decamped with more than Rs 20 lakh cash and valuable jewelleries by breaking open the hundi of the newly-built Ram Mandir on the Girigobardhan hill at Fatehgarh of Nayagarh on Tuesday night.

Besides, they broke into the office of the temple's trust board and took away valuables including 'patta bastra (clothes)', gold and silver ornaments of the deities. The theft came to the fore this morning when the temple priest found everything in the temple in disarray.

The temple committee filed a police complaint in this ...