In a daring broad daylight robbery, three unidentified bike-borne miscreants looted Rs 15 lakh from an employee of a petrol filling station near OCC Square here on Monday.
The victim was identified as Braja Kishore Natau.
Sources said Natau was on his way to a bank on his motorcycle in the afternoon to deposit the cash when the miscreants waylaid him and attacked him with an axe. Then they snatched away the bag containing the money and fled from the spot.
“I was carrying Rs 15.50 lakh to the bank when three miscreants on a motorcycle attacked me and snatched away the money,” Natua said.
The Sadar police rushed to the spot and started an investigation. The incident has sent shockwaves in the area.