In a broad daylight incident, two persons posing as customers looted over Rs 9 lakh from the cash counter of the branch of Bank of India (BoI) located in the busy Nayasarak area of the city under the lalbag police station on Tuesday.
According to an FIR lodged by the bank’s branch manager, four persons entered the bank at around 12 noon posing as customers and sought assistance of the cashier to withdraw a large amount of cash.
“Bundles of cash brought from the strong room were kept on the table of the cashier, and two of them managed to pocket a few of them while the cashier was busy counting the notes,” the FIR said, adding that the pictures of the looters have been captured in the bank’ CCTV camera.
Registering a case, the lalbag police began investigating into the incident. No one was, however, apprehended yet till this report was filed in the evening. Police sources said they had already launched a manhunt after raiding a few places.