Daylight robbery in Capital; Rs 40 lakh looted

In the fourth incident of daylight robbery this month, six armed persons today looted Rs 4 million in cash from a security guard of a finance company at Ranjana Galli, Newroad, in Kathmandu.
Raju Tamang, along with his colleague, Bindu Joshi, was returning to Share Market and Finance Limited at Ranjana Galli after withdrawing the cash from New Road branch of Nepal Investment Bank when two motorcycles blocked their way and made away with the cash after injuring Tamang.
“The armed persons hit him in the head and right leg with khukuris. When he fell, they snatched the bag containing the cash from Tamang,” Joshi said. According to her, one of them pointed pistol at her when she tried to protest. Tamang has been admitted to Bir Hospital. The incident took place around around 12:30 pm.
A police constable who saw six persons assaulting a man in front of the cinema hall, said, “I thought they were fighting. When I tried to catch one of them, he tried to hit me in the face but I ducked. They went towards Pyukha. I couldn’t catch them.”
Inspector Anupam Rana at the Jana Sewa Police Station said a patrolling police encountered the armed group when they were running. “When they saw the policemen, they threw their khukuris and jackets,” he said. “However, the team had no knowledge about the robbery at Ranjana Galli,” he added.
“On the spot, an assistant sub-inspector pointed a pistol at them but a boy and a girl were in between,” SP Sarbendra Khanal at the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathamndu, said.
Rana said they came to know about the robbery only after Tamang was admitted to Bir Hospital.
On January 21, cash worth Rs 1,911,856 was looted from Sanjay Kumar Jha, a staffer of Hulas Remittance, in front of Teku Branch of the Everest Bank after he withdrew the money from the bank.
On January 13, Rs 5 lakh was looted from Banshiram Parikh, cashier of TM Dugar, at the counter of Bank of Kathmandu.
A group of cheats had looted Rs 1.6 million from a customer of the Standard Chartered Bank at New Baneshwor on January 6.

Source: The Himalayan Times