In a broad daylight robbery, three motorbike-borne robbers decamped with cash of Rs 9.5 lakh after smashing the window pane of a contractor’s car in front of the SBI main branch here on Friday.
The shocking incident took place at around noon beside NH-353 and in front of the District Court.
Sources said contractor Koustav Sahu had withdrawn the money from the SBI main branch and kept the bag with the money on the back seat of his Hyundai car. When he was about to start the car, the miscreants broke the window pane of the back seat and snatched the money-filled bag.
Getting information, police rushed to the spot and, after preliminary investigations, launched a manhunt to nab the absconding looters.
While a police team was examining the bank’s CCTV footage, frisking of vehicles at the Chhattisgarh border, roads connecting Nuapada with Bargarh and Khariar with Nuapada was also being carried out.