Bhopal: Two loot incidents were reported in the city within a span of six hours on Wednesday. A trader was kicked, slapped and accused of harassment by three persons, who snatched his bag and fled away. The dramatic incident occurred near Jain temple, a stone’s throw away distance from TT Nagar police station on Wednesday evening.
The complainant was riding his bike and the accused were chasing the man on their bike. As he slowed down, they waylaid him and hurled abuses on the 35-year-old man. They first scolded him for being a harasser and then kicked and slapped him. The complainant said he could not understand anything as it all happened so fast.
One of the accused then came down from the bike and snatched his bag carrying cash Rs 4.10 lakh. According to police, the complainant Veerbhanu Singh is a resident of Kolar. He runs a shop in the area. He told police that he was carrying cash for payment of goods he had procured and was heading towards Jawahar square.As he reached near Jain temple, three youths approached him and after they kicked on his bike one of them slapped him.
After accusing him of harassment they thrashed him and snatched his bag from him. He told police that in his bag he was carrying cash Rs 4.10 lakh and his documents which were also taken away by the accused.A complaint against unidentified men has been lodged with TT Nagar police and probe is on into the matter, said SHO TT Nagar Alok Shrivastava.
SHO Shrivastava said that we have sought CCTV footage of the nearby areas and other locations to trace the accused who were three in number. In another incident of loot in Bairagarh that took place three hours after first incident of robbery, an elderly jeweller was robbed of cash by two bike-borne miscreants near Lake City Enclave on Wednesday night.
According to victim jeweller Ramprakash Mangani the incident took place at around 9:30pm on Wednesday when he was on his way towards home after closing his jewellery shop and in the mid-way, two bike-borne miscreants approached towards his scooter from backside and the pillion rider snatched a bag in which Rs 5,000 cash, keys of shop and bank passbook was kept. In the process, he fell down on road from moving vehicle and got injured in his toe. Subsequently based on his complaint a case of loot was registered by the Bairagarh police.