48 hours on, no headway in bid to rob gas agency staff

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, October 9

Even after 48 hours, the police is still clueless about miscreants who made an unsuccessful bid to loot a cash bag from employees of an HP gas agency near the Dr Mela Ram Hospital road in the city.

The SHO of the Kotwali police station said the police were working on the case, but so far they had failed to get any breakthrough.

On Wednesday, around 1 pm, three miscreants reached the spot on a motorcycle where the three employees of Amarsons Gas Agency were delivering cylinders to consumers. They tried to snatch the bag of cash from Babu Lal, one of the employees.

Meanwhile, the other employees, Pawan and Balram, came forward to save Babu Lal after which the miscreants opened fire from their country made .12 bore pistol. The three employees were injured in the incident. The miscreants fled the spot after the firing.

The police have also failed to solve other incidents occurred yesterday. Two unidentified accused snatched gold earrings from a septuagenarian woman, Anguri Devi, from outside her house in Vishal Nagar in broad daylight on Thursday. The Kotwali police have failed to arrest the accused.

In another incident, an employee of a private finance company was robbed by unidentified motorcycle-borne miscreants in Bodhipur village in the district on Thursday.