Bharat Financial heist: No breakthrough yet

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 10

The police have failed to make any breakthrough in the robbery case in which a financial firm was looted by armed robbers in the Chheharta area. The police team on Monday questioned the staff members again and recorded their statements.

According to the police, the CCTV cameras installed in the nearby vicinity of the financial firm, robbed by unknown armed men in the Chheharta area in the wee hours on Sunday, revealed no movements during the period when the incident took place.

Harish Behal, SHO, Chheharta police station, said there were three CCTV cameras installed by private persons in the locality two of which were at either end of the street. There was absolute no movement during the period when the incident was stated to be happened. This has raised many questions over the claims of the staff of the financial firm. But we are not jumping to the conclusion and further investigations are underway,” said Behal.

Six unidentified armed men looted Rs 8.59 lakh from a branch of a finance firm at Green Valley in the Chheharta area. The firm was operating from a double-storey house. As per staff members, the suspects were equipped with five pistols and sharp weapons. They scaled the wall, entered the house, and decamped with the amount after getting it from the locker of the firm.

Baljit Singh, branch manager of Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited, said the firm had been running from a rented residential accommodation for the past nine years. He said a total of 10 employees were working in the office and two of them were on leave.

At the time of the robbery, he was sleeping on the ground floor while the remaining seven employees were sleeping in rooms on the first floor of the house, he added.

No clue found from CCTV cameras

• According to the police, the CCTV cameras installed in the nearby vicinity of the financial firm, robbed by unknown armed men in the Chheharta area in the wee hours on Sunday, revealed no movements during the period when the incident took place. 
• Harish Behal, SHO, Chheharta police station, said there were three CCTV cameras installed by private persons in the locality two of which were at either end of the street.
• Six unidentified armed men looted Rs 8.59 lakh from a branch of a finance firm at Green Valley in the Chheharta area. The firm was operating from a double-storey house.