Two days after broad daylight robbery in Chandan Nagar locality of the city, in another case of broad daylight robbery two miscreants riding a motorcycle looted cash of Rs14 lakh from a person in Choti Gwaltoli locality of the city on Monday afternoon and fled. The incident has once again pointed to deteriorating law and order situation in the city and inaptness of the police to reign in criminals who in the wake of weak law and order machineries are having a field day.
The incident occurred at around 1 pm near Patel Bridge under Choti Gwaltoli police station when the victim identified as Manish Salvi carrying a cash of Rs14 lakh in a bag of the company Shyam Traders, he is working for, was on way to bank to deposit the cash. As soon as he passed through Madni Hotel near Patel Bridge, two motorcycle-borne miscreants who were chasing him, came near him, snatched away bag carrying a cash of Rs14 lakh and fled.
The victim who fell on the ground on account of snatching of bag from his possession by the accused, though raised an alarm and tried to chase the accused for a certain distance but could not succeed.
He immediately informed about the matter to his company proprietor as well as Choti Gwaltoli police station. On being informed about the matter, Choti Gwaltoli police jawans reached the incident site and started collecting evidences related to the incident. On the basis of CCTV footage of the incident site which showed miscreants riding a motorcycle, police have launched manhunt to nab the accused.
This was third incident loot in the city within a span of three days. On Friday last, three miscreants riding a motorcycle had looted a cash of Rs80,000 from Ajay Kirana Store near Chandan Nagar square. While looting cash, the miscreants had also opened fire in the shop and beat up the shop proprietor Dililp Gupta. After this incident, the miscreants had looted a cash of Rs2,000 from an auto part shop nearby. Though city police in a swift action had arrested the accused within four hours of the incident on the basis of CCTV footage.