Bhubaneswar, Feb. 3 -- Amid rising cases of theft and robbery in the State Capital, two unidentified miscreants decamped with jewllery and cash worth lakhs from the banquet hall of a city-based hotel in Bhubaneswar on Sunday evening.

One of the accused was nabbed from Puri while trying to pull off a similar feat in another wedding venue. He was identified as Ritesh Sisodhia from Madhya Pradesh.

The crime in Bhuabneswar took place during the wedding ceremony of a doctor couple in one of the banquet halls of the hotel within Maitri Vihar police limits. Police had started investigation following a complaint by the victim family, who claimed that cash worth over Rs 2.5 lakh along with gold and diamond jewellery worth over Rs 10 lakh went mi...