Six unidentified miscreants looted Rs 26,000 from sub-post office Kathara, on Monday morning at about 10:30 am. The incident occurred within one hour after the post office opened. The post office is situated in heavily populated Kathara bazaar.
According to Post office employees, the miscreants took all eight persons in the post office including four employees on gunpoint. The rest had country made pistols with them.
One of the miscreants demanded the cashier, Vandana Mishra, to hand over the keys of the cash chest while the other looted the money that was in the cash counter .They decamped with Rs 26,000 from the post office after locking up the sub post master Sidheshwar Paswan, cashier Vanana Mishra, post man Radheshyam Manjhi and other customers in a room.
Eyewitnesses said the miscreants fled from the spot on two-wheelers. Though the police officials including officer-in charge laxami Kant reached the spot following the incident and quizzed the employees and customers about the incident. All the neighboring police stations have been asked to keep an eye on movement of the two-wheelers, he said.