4 robbers shoot money van guard, loot Rs 39L in UP’s Mirzapur
VARANASI: In a daring daylight heist, 4 armed miscreants driving two mobikes shot useless a money van guard and injured three others exterior Beltar department of Axis Financial institution beneath Katra Kotwali police station in Mirzapur district and escaped with a metallic field and a bag containing Rs 39 lakh on Tuesday afternoon.
Giving this info, ADG Varanasi zone Ram Kumar mentioned, “Ten police groups from your entire zone have been engaged to work out the case through which involvement of criminals from Madhya Pradesh has come to gentle throughout preliminary investigation.”
Footage collected by the police from CCTV cameras of the financial institution and close by buildings in Beltar market space confirmed that money van guard Jai Singh, a local of Chilh, was trying contained in the van’s secure through which containers and baggage containing money had been saved. Within the meantime 4 miscreants, sporting helmets, raided the place on two bikes. One of many miscreants opened fireplace on the guard. When cashiers Akhilesh of Padri and Rajnish Maurya of Visunderpur, rushed to assist the guard, the looters opened fireplace on them additionally.
Later, when the looters had been attempting to flee with the money field and bag, a passer-by, Bahadur Gond of Vindhyachal, tried to cease them. The looters hit and injured Gond and escaped from the spot.
The incident led to chaos available in the market. The locals rushed the injured guard and different individuals to the district hospital. On getting info, SP Mirzapur Abhinandan reached the spot and likewise visited the hospital to test on the injured individuals. DIG Mirzapur vary RP Singh additionally camped on the incident website whereas ADG zone reached there late afternoon from Varanasi.
SP Mirzapur mentioned, “Through the course of remedy, the money van guard succumbed to accidents whereas the situation of the three injured individuals is steady. The district police had been alerted instantly after the incident and an enormous checking drive was launched by sealing the borders.”
ADG zone mentioned that police groups engaged for an early exercise of the case. “They’ve obtained important clues concerning the criminals concerned within the incident. The cops are suspecting involvement of criminals from neighbouring MP,” he added.
