3 take firm’s van driver hostage, flee with cash

GURUGRAM: A cash collection van of a Delhi-based private company was robbed of Rs 17 lakh by three armed assailants, after taking the driver hostage at gunpoint in Sector 29 market on Monday.
According to the police, the cash van belongs to Radiant Cash Management Services that has its office in Jhandewalan in New Delhi. The company works as a cash collecting agent that helps establishments get their money deposited to the bank count by paying a fee to the company.
On Monday, the cashier of the company along with Dinesh Bharti — the driver — were on the duty of collecting money from different clients. “After collecting cash from Dwarka and Najafgarh, we had reached the Sector 29 market in Gurugram to collect cash from Croma Centre. The cashier had gone inside and I was waiting in the van that was parked on the roadside. Suddenly three men arrived in a car and held me hostage at gunpoint. They snatched the cash bag from the van and fled,” Dinesh told police.
A PCR call was made and a team from Sector 29 police station immediately reached the spot and started scanning the CCTV footage of the area to identify the accused.
“Maybe the accused were following the van from some distance and attacked the driver after the cashier went inside the market. Role of an insider cannot be ruled out as the entire episode appears to be a well-planned one. We are recording the statement of the two to understand the sequence of events,” said a senior officer adding that there was no security guard in the van and cash bag too was not kept inside any enclosed area.
Police spokesperson Subhash Boken said on the basis of the complaint a case has been registered at Sector 29 police station.