Bank guard shoots 2 colleagues in Uttarakhand

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, March 16

In a bizarre incident, a District Cooperative Bank guard in Uttarakhand’s Champawat district gunned down two of his bank colleagues in a broad daylight.

The incident happened at Khetikhan in Lohaghat region of Champawat district of Uttarakhand today. During morning hours, as the routine activities in the bank picked up, guard Dinesh Bora, alias Guddu, fired at cashier Lalit Bisht and peon Rajesh Verma with his .12 bore single barrel gun.

Before other employees could react, both the cashier and peon died on the spot. The guard Dinesh Bora fled from the scene. Bank manager Naresh had just come to bank after attending a meeting and stood shocked at sudden turn of events.

Police rushed to the scene and took both the bodies in possession and sent them for post-mortem examination. Subsequently, after frantic search the revenue police was successful in nabbing the bank guard from his nearby native Manar village and handed him to the police. 

Police are interrogating the guard to find out the reasons behind the killings. The guard was found in an inebriated state at the time of arrest. 

Local MLA Puran Singh Fartyal, Superintendent of Police Dhirendra Gunjyal too reached the site of incident. The local villagers, who had gathered in large numbers after the incident, initially refused to take the two bodies for cremation and sought immediate action against the guard. It was later after the arrest of the guard that they were pacified. The shocked local shopkeepers too downed the shutters as mark of grief.