Days after posters by a purported group of robbers threatened to carry out a robbery in select houses in a village here, a woman alleged that 8-10 men looted jewellery and cash from her house, police said on Tuesday. According to Nirmala Devi, a resident of Odwara Ragadpurwa village, the men knocked on her door late Sunday night, entered the house and took her jewellery and Rs 20,000 in cash, they said.

Later police were informed about the matter and the woman's son Lalit Mohan filed a complaint about the incident at Munderwa police station. Police have registered a case under sections 457 (trespass at night) and 380 (theft) of the Indian Penal Code on Monday, said Basti Superintendent of Police (SP) Gopal Krishna Chaudhary.