Bike-borne thieves loot 5L, police in spot on

JAIPUR: In the third such incident in the last two days, unknown assailants chased one Anuj Sharma (26) who had just withdrawn a large sum from an ATM situated at Tonk road on Monday and travelling with his colleague Jeetendra Singh. When they reached near Gopalpura, six assailants on three motorcycles intercepted them.
The culprits accused Sharma of rash driving and hitting an old man on the way and started a verbal confrontation with Sharma and Jeetendra Singh, police said.During the confrontation, one of the assailants snatched the cash bag containing Rs 5 lakh from Singh and fled the scene, police said.
“The assailants stopped the victim and accused him of driving his vehicle rashly. While he was into verbal confrontation, one of the assailants snatched the cash bag and later fled from the scene,” said Circle Inspector, Bajaj Nagar, Shivratan Godara while talking to TOI.
Soon after the incident, police intimated the wireless control room and asked for barricades and checking in and around the city. According to the sources, senior police officers, including the commissioner of police, B L Soni, reprimanded the circle inspector and other officers for their ‘lethargic’ attitude in solving the cases.
After the incident, the victim, Sharma, chased his assailants for at least 5 km till Durgapura but the robbers managed to give him the slip.
“Barricades were set up in and around Jaipur especially in areas along the Jaipur-Tonk highway. Though there has been no concrete clue on the whereabouts of the robbers, yet we suspect that the gang belongs to Sawai Madhopur,” a senior police officer said.
The Jaipur police has badly failed in curbing theft incidents by robbers who have resorted to a new modus operandi of chasing their victims from ATMs and banks, embroiling them in non-existent cases and fleeing with cash bags in the melee.
In a similar incident on Sunday, bike-borne robbers had looted a brother and a sister returning on their scooter from a bank located at MI Road.