Cash amounting to Rs 1.40 lakh was looted from a businessman in broad daylight allegedly by two women while travelling in an auto rickshaw from the Railway station to Sharda Chowk in the city on Tuesday.
Strangely in the month of January this year, an amount of Rs 1.49 lakh was stolen from the same person in Pandri area of the city. Superintendent of police Raipur OP Pal informed that Rajesh Thawrani a resident of Tilda had reached Raipur to purchase cloth items for his shop in Tilda. He was carrying cash of Rs 1.40 lakh in a bag. On way to Raipur in the train he met one of his relatives. The duo after embarking from the train hired an auto rickshaw at the Railway station. Two women of age about 40-45 years of age also came and sat in the auto, Station House Officer Moudhapara Gora Chand Pati told The Pioneer over phone. When Thawrani left the auto at Sharda Chowk and reached the market, he found that cash in the bag missing. He then tried to find the auto and was able to trace him at Railway station, but could not find the women, the SHO maintained. On a complaint lodged by Thawrani at Moudhapara police , a case under the Section 389 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered and investigations have begun.