HAZARIBAG/GUMLA: Three unidentified criminals looted Rs 6.82 lakh from Nawan Kumar Sao, a potato trader from Bihar’s Gaya, near Khas river in Daliya village under Ichak police station limits on Friday.
Sao had reached the village in his two-wheeler to purchase potato from traders and had locked his money in the bike’s side-luggage holder. As he spoke to farmers, the men, who had been following him, broke the holder’s lock and tried to run away with the money.
When Sao raised an alarm, village residents chased the looters on their backs. In retreat, the miscreants opened fire from an unlicensed gun, injuring Ashok Kumar Mehta, a local. Mehta was admitted to Hazaribag Medical College & Hospital with bullet wounds in his chest.
“A special investigation team has been constituted to arrest the criminals, who escaped through Lobhri. Meanwhile, two motorcycles have been recovered,” Hazaribag SP Karthik S said.
Meanwhile, two armed criminals looted over Rs 50,000 cash from a wine shop at Kuru block headquarters of Lohardaga district on Thursday night. The incident took place when three staff members of a government license holding wine shop were pulling their shutter down around 10.30pm.
Anil Oraon, the officer in-charge of Kuru police station, said the shop was located at a desolate place in Bazartarn area of Kuru. No FIR was filed till Friday evening as the staff were matching their stocks at the shop till the afternoon.