In yet another broad daylight lifting incident, a man was relieved of cash amounting to Rs5.50 lakh from Ramsagarpara locality of the city on Monday.
The cash was kept in a bag in the side box of the bike, police informed.
According to the police, Rajesh Kumar Verma (38) resident of Bajrang Nagar Gogaon had lodged a report in this connection. The incident happened at a breakfast kiosk at Ramsagarpara where he had reached around 12:30 pm.
Verma works for Krishna Industries located in Gogaon. The company owner had given him Rs2 lakh and he had then withdrawn Rs2 lakh from ICICI Bank Civil lines Branch and Rs1.50 lakh from State Bank of India, MG Road Branch.
He was on way back to Gogaon when he stopped at the kiosk leaving money in the bike, police informed.
The complainant when reached Gudhiyari and noticed that the side box in bike wherein he had placed the money was open and the cash was missing. On his report Gunj police had registered a report in this connection.