A bag carrying Rs 4 lakh cash were stolen by a youth from a shop at Chhawani road under Mangalwara police station area on Tuesday.
According to police, late in the night on Tuesday when the victim Sunderlal Chawla was closing his shop a youth who used to buy empty cartons came to his shop and when victim went inside the shop accused escaped with the bag carrying cash.
The victim runs a shop of mouth fresheners and beetle-nuts at Chhawani road. In his complaint he stated that accused came around 11 pm when he preparing to close the shop and asked for empty cartons which victim refused to provide as it was too late and asked him to come next day and went to switch off
the lights and when he returned bag carrying cash and accused were missing.
Police claimed that the victim has provided that the bag was carrying Rs 4 lakh. Out of the Rs 4 lakh, Rs 3.5 lakh were of his brother Prakash Chawla who runs a chemist shop while Rs 50,000 was of his collection from the sales during the day.
The accused used to visit shop for buying the empty cartons and on Tuesday night he came for the same but after finding cash which the victim counted in front of him he escaped with the cash.
Police have registered a case under Section 379 of the IPC and have started further investigation. Police have found CCTV footage in which the accused could be spotted clearly and will help in the investigation.