By Mayukh Goswami
Mangaldai:Just ahead of the Republic Day celebration amidst tight security arrangements unidentified miscreants on Wednesday night have looted one premier educational institution and one premier temple at Mangaldai town . In 
the first incident miscreants reportedly stormed into the campus of Mangaldai Town Boys’ Lower Primary school located along the NH-15 within fifty meters radius of the Mangaldai Police Station and official residences of Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police of the district . The burglars looted one sound system , one camera and one radio set before breaking the locks of the steel almirah and eight different rooms while vandalized official documents and materials . In the other incident miscreants looted cash from the donations boxes of all the four temple of different deities of the Hindu mythology in the premier temple of Goddess ‘Kali’ located at a distance of nearly two hundred meters 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 have broken and cash around rupees six thousand along with a music system have been looted. Both the school authority and temple management committee has already lodged complaints in the Mangaldai Sadar Police Station on Thursday . Meanwhile the school authority of Mangaldai Town Boys have alleged before media that the police team arrived at the school after nearly one and half hour of filing the FIR . Similarly even after three hours of filing complaint police team allegedly failed to arrive at the said temple premises .
It may well be mentioned here that on the night of December 8 last miscreants in the same manner looted and vandalized Mangaldai Bhebarghat (ME) Upper Primary School along the NH at wad no-10 of town . However the police allegedly till date has not been able to inform the school about the outcome of the investigation . The Officer in Charge of Mangaldai Police Station Inspector Niranjan Baruah had been tried at his mobile no (94350 12343) by this reporter couple of times to know his reaction but every time his mobile phone was found engaged. These series of incidents of burglary that too in the district head quarter town have made people concern about safety and security of the life and property of tax payers denizens of the town. Mention may be made here that change of guard of the district police has taken place only on Tuesday .
