In a daring broad daylight robbery, armed miscreants looted Rs 50 lakh from a homoeopathic doctor near a petrol pump at Kapursingh on the Cuttack-Dhenkanal road in Cuttack district on Tuesday.
Sources said three miscreants on a KTM bike waylaid the victims Bijay Mohapatra when he was on his way from Bhubaneswar to Dhenkanal. The doctor was carrying the cash to purchase a land.
Police said the three bike-borne men intercepted the doctor’s Honda City car and threatened him to hand over the cash bag to them.
When the victim’s driver offered resistance the looters fired two rounds. While one bullet hit the windshield of the car and damaged it and another missed the target.
Then holding the doctor at gunpoint, the miscreants snatched the money bag with Rs 50 lakh and sped away from the spot.
The victim then called the police. After reaching the spot, the Gurudijhatia police are trying to collect CCTV footages of the area to identify and nab the criminals.
A case has been registered and police are carrying out investigations with the help of a forensic team.