A group of unknown miscreants stole a truck, loaded with Horlicks in very filmy manner on Thursday evening. The truck coming from Ambala was going to Ranchi when it was overtaken and intercepted on its way by a Bolero, said the driver Attaullah, who was found lying unconscious on the roadside this morning.
When Attaullah stopped the truck, two men came out of the Bolero and approached him introducing themselves as RTO staffs and asked for the papers of the truck and the loaded item. He gave handed over the papers to them, who after sometime told him that ‘sahib’ (RTO officer) is calling you. The so called RTO officer was in the Bolero and as driver Attaullah reached near the Bolero he was forcibly pulled inside..
Some armed miscreants were already inside the Bolero who immediately tied the mouth of the driver and started assaulting him.In the meantime a miscreant snatched the keys of the truck from him. The miscreants started the truck and with Bolero they left the spot.
The driver was left unconscious there after the brutal attack. In the morning some villagers saw him near Srinagar village of Barhi block. Villagers sprinkled water on his face after which he regained his consciousness and then he narrated the whole story to the police on Friday morning.
Attaullah, who hails from village Arugerua under police station Hunterganj of Chatra district, informed that on September 28, Horlicks was loaded in his truck number JH 02N 5304 at Ambala which was to be delivered to Ranchi. He said that the miscreants looted Rs. 42,000 cash from him.
This is the second incident of stealing the truck and looting of the loaded items within a month in the Hazaribagh-Barhi route.