₹21L looted from PNB in Patna district | Patna News – Times of India
Patna: A group of armed robbers decamped with Rs 21 lakh from the Koriya-Sultanpur branch of Punjab National Bank (PNB) in Jamui Bazar under Dulhin Bazar police station area of Patna, on Monday morning after holding the bank employees as well as customers hostage at gunpoint.
No arrest has been made so far.
After the bank robbery, police stepped up vigilance and sealed the border areas as well as intensified vehicle checking at exit points of the district.
Police said five masked men entered the bank posing as customers. They immediately took out the weapons, held the bank employees and other customers hostage, and locked them inside a room after which they carried out the robbery, added police.
Patna SSP Rajiv Mishra said the incident took place under the Dulhin Bazar police station area of the capital. “The masked robbers entered the PNB in Jamui Bazar between 10am and 10.30am and held the office staff and customers hostage.
They locked them inside a room and carried out the robbery. The manager of the bank, Santosh Kumar, said the miscreants decamped with Rs 21 lakh from the bank,” he said.
The accused also took away the digital video recorder (DVR) with them, said Mishra, adding, “The police are scanning the nearby CCTV footage and their escape route is also being tracked.”
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