Four miscreants entered into Andhra Bank at Joda and looted Rs21 lakh from the bank and fled by locking the bank’s entrance gate on Monday. The staff could not come outside till the local police came and opened the gate by breaking the lock.
Sources revealed that as usual, the bank transaction was closed from 2.00 pm to 2.30 pm during which all the staff went outside except one Trilochan Munda (sweeper) who was there to clean the floor. Just after the entry gate was opened at 2.30 pm, four miscreants entered into the bank along with the bank staff and other customers. They created terror at gun point and collected the key of the cash counter and strong room and decamped with Rs 21lakh, including Rs 2.5 lakh of customer Santosh Kumar, who had come to deposit the cash.
As per the statement of the Bank Manger Tukuram Munda, the miscreants took away the hard disk of the CCTV camera which was inside the room of the Bank Manager.