Two men on a bike posing as traffic police personnel robbed two private company employees of Rs 50 lakh in IP Estate area here, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place at Outer Ring Road near Salimgarh Flyover on Wednesday evening, they said. Two employees of Pan Bahar Pvt Ltd were on their way to the office after collecting a payment of Rs 50 lakh from Kucha Ghasiram in a bag, an official said.
They were intercepted by two people riding on a motorcycle, wearing traffic police uniforms and carrying wireless sets near the flyover, the official said. On the pretext of checking the vehicle, the accused opened the car’s trunk that had the bag containing the money. Meanwhile, two other bike-borne persons came there and stole the bag, the officer said.
All the four accused fled from the spot, police said.
A case under section 419 (cheating by personation), 382 of the IPC has been registered and an investigation is in progress, they said.
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