Three motorcycle-borne armed miscreants looted Rs 1.33 lakh from the manager of the petrol pump (Damodar fuel petrol pump ),near Jarandih railway station about 5 km from the Gandhi-Nagar police station here on Wednesday around 12:30pm .The Gandhi nagar police have launched manhunt to track down the criminals ,Bokaro SP Y.S. Ramesh said .
According to Officer-in charge Rana Bhanu Pratap Singh, a motorcycle-borne criminals went to the petrol pump station ostensibly to re-filling tank at 12:30pm of date. As soon as the salesman started filling tank while two them miscreants rushed to the cash counter where two persons identified as Ashok Singh and Sudhir Kumar were sitting inside the room. While the criminals, entered the room and asked them to see the Mobile. By that time one of them criminal pushed both of them and asked the manager Ashok Singh to hand over the cash .
The fear-stricken manager and cashier handed over the morning’s sales proceeds amounting to Rs 1.33 lakh to the miscreants .The criminals are reported to have pushed them and fled on two-wheeler towards Jarandih, police said .
Though the Gandhi-Nagar police are investigating the case seriously about the magnitude of the loot while the staffs of the petrol pump Ashok Singh said that Rs 75, 000 which was collecting amount also was in drawer while Rs 58, 000 of sale amounts, could well be over 1.33 lakhs looted by the criminals.
At around 1pm, the police received information following which ,the officer-in charge Rana Bhanu Pratap Singh rushed to the place of occurrence. later the statement of the victims were recorded and subsequently ,an FIR was lodged with police station .While the officer-in charge Rana Bhanu Pratap told the pioneer that I have asked several time to the owner of the all three petrol pumps within limits of Gandhi-Nagar police station to install the CCTV camera but they have ignored .