Rs 3.80L looted from liquor shop owner

PATNA: Even as the top brass of the Patna Police claim intensive patrolling in the city, three motorcycle-borne criminals looted Rs 3.80 lakh in cash in broad daylight along with the motorcycle of a liquor shop owner, Jitendra Kumar, near the Bahadurpur road overbridge (ROB) under the Patrakarnagar police station on Friday.
Jitendra's outlet, Wine Shop, is located under the ROB on the Kankarbagh Old Bypass Road.One of the employees of the shop, Murari Kumar, said Jitendra, who had drawn Rs 3.80 lakh from a private bank at the Rajendra Nagar roundabout, was parking his two-wheeler on the opposite side of the shop around 12.45 pm when the incident occurred. The cash was kept in the dickey of the two-wheeler, he said and added that three youths riding a motorcycle stopped there and took the shop owner hostage at pistol point.
"The criminals asked Jitendra to hand over the key of his motorcycle to them," Murari said and added that when the wine dealer refused to give the key, one of the youths opened fire. The bullet passed grazing Jitendra's hand. The employee said Jitendra fell on the ground after which the criminals took the key of the motorcycle and sped away from there on his bike along with the cash kept in the dickey. He said two of the criminals brandished countrymade pistols while escaping towards Kumhrar.
"At first, I could not recognize that it was my employer, who was targeted by the criminals, as he had fallen on the ground. When I recognized him, I ran towards him. The criminals opened fire in the air to terrorize locals," he said and added that he informed the Patrakarnagar police station about the incident.
City SP Kim, SDPO (Sadar) Rashid Jaman and local SHO Dhirendra Pandey reached the spot and started investigation into the case. Kim said the criminals opened fire in the air to terrorize locals. Raids were on to arrest those involved in the cash loot, she said and added that Jitendra did not sustain any bullet injury.