A senior citizen reportedly lost his hard earned Rs50,000 to pickpockets while he was waiting in a long queue outside a bank to deposit his savings at Outer Delhi’s Narela area on Saturday at 10:30 am, police said on Sunday.
According to an official, Premchand Soni, 64, was standing in a queue outside Vijaya Bank branch to deposit Rs1 lakh cash after the Government had announced that on Saturday, only senior citizens will be allowed to deposit and withdraw cash from the banks/ATMs.”
Police said Soni lived with his family in the Bhorgarh area and had come down to the nearby bank to deposit cash.
The police official said, “He had kept two packets of Rs50,000 each in the pocket of his trousers. When his turn came at the counter to deposit his hard earned money, he slipped his hand inside the pockets to take out the money. However, he found that one of the packets containing Rs50,000 cash was missing.”
Unable to find the packet, Soni raised an alarm and made a PCR call after which a team of local police reached the spot to take stock of the situation.
A senior police official of the Outer district said they have registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC at the Narela police station.
The police official said, “We are scanning the CCTV footage of the nearby area to establish the identity of the suspect. local police team has been formed to look into the matter. Further investigation is on.”