Families visiting puja pandals barely yards away from home and had their valuables and cash stolen from four quarters in Durgapur town on Tuesday night.
Three houses in E, F, J blocks of Sagarbhanga housing colony in Coke Oven PS area were where the robbers struck. The robberies happened between 7.30-8 pm during the inauguration of a community puja where Minister Pradip Majumdar and senior police officers were present. The police have intensified raids in certain pockets, but none has been arrested so far, officials said.