Cash looted from chemist shop

Owners of chemist shops in the city pulled down shutters of their stores to protest over a looting incident at Sethi Medical Shops located in Hargobind Nagar, a congested locality, in the evening here today.

After receiving information, Jaspreet Singh, DSP, Phagwara, along with Inspector Aman Kumar rushed to the spot. As per reports, two unidentified youths came to the shop and took away all the money kept in the cash box in the presence of shop owner Paramjit Kaur around 4 pm today. The exact loss at the shop was yet to be estimated.

This is second such incident reported in Phagwara. Earlier, robbers had looted Bansal Medical Hall in August end. Phagwara Chemists Association chairman Vipin Arora and its members Rashpal, Mukesh Bansal, Tarun Aggarwal and Neeraj Gupta announced that all medical store owners would observe an indefinite strike to protest against increasing incidents of crime in Phagwara. Representatives of several traders associations also came out in support of the protesting medical store owners.

When contacted, Phagwara SP Rupinder Kaur Bhatti said teams of cops headed by DSP Jaspreet Singh had been formed to investigate the looting incident. She said the police were scanning footage of the CCTV cameras installed in the vicinity of the chemist shop to find clues about perpetrators of the crime.