Miscreants loot over Rs 1.5L from bank at gunpoint

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 18

A day after miscreants looted Rs6 lakh from a branch of Axis Bank at Thathian Mahanta village in Tarn Taran, unidentified armed men decamped with Rs1.55 lakh from the cashier of HDFC Bank at Bandala village here on Saturday.

They took away the entire cash kept in a trunk at the counter of the cashier. They also took away money from the bank staff. Before fleeing, they uprooted the digital video recorder of CCTV cameras of the bank.

Punit Kumar, branch manager, told the police that the incident took place around 1 pm. He said before they could understand, the robbers held the security guard hostage at gunpoint. Punit said later, the miscreants pushed the staff members to a corner at gunpoint and took away the entire cash from the trunk.

Ironically, the security guard at the gate of the bank did not have any weapon to thwart the robbery.

“Apparently, the miscreants had done a recce of the bank before committing the crime. They knew that the guard of the bank was not armed and it would be an easy task for them to loot the bank,” said SSP.

The backup of CCTV cameras and digital video recorder of the bank were not linked with its head office.

The same modus operndi was used by the robbers who looted Rs6 lakh from a bank in Thathian Mahanta village in Tarn Taran.

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