Four miscreants loot ₹10L at gunpoint from money exchange shop
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY Robbers also took a laptop, 5 cellphones from the shop in Rayya; later, cops recover a mobile from Wadala
AMRITSAR: Four unidentified armed robbers allegedly looted around ₹10 lakh at gunpoint from an employee of a Forex shop on GT Road in Rayya town, 37 kms from the district headquarter, on Thursday. The shop owner, Gurdial Singh, said the robbers also took away five mobile phones and a laptop from the shop.
Later, sources from the police department said the miscreants switch off the robbed phones but possibly forgot or were unable to do so with one of them. They then threw the phone on a road near a drain at Wadala village. The police have so far recovered the thrown mobile but the robbers were still at large till the filing of this report.
Gurdial said that besides him, he has two other employees who run the shop. “On Thursday afternoon, I had gone to Bandala village for some work and another employee had also gone to Amritsar, leaving behind, Sukhdeep Singh alias Sunny, to handle the shop,” said Gurdial.
He said around 2.30 pm, four unidentified men on two bikes came outside his shop. “Three of them entered the shop while one remained outside near the bikes,” Gurdial said.
“One of the men inside the shop pointed a gun at Sunny’s forehead and demanded the locker’s key. They then took the key and took ₹6 lakh in Indian currency and ₹4.66 lakh in foreign currency from the locker. Before leaving, the miscreants also took away five mobile phones and a laptop from the shop,” he added.
SSP (rural) Parampal Singh and his team reached the spot and started investigation. He said after tracing the locations of the robbed phones, the police cordoned off the suspected area towards which the accused went after the robbery. “The CCTV footages of in and around the area are also being examined,” he said.
Notably, the SSP said the police had instructed Gurdial to repair the CCTVs installed at his shop besides hiring a gunman but he didn’t pay any heed towards it.
SHO of Rayya police station, Agyapal Singh, said a case was registered against unidentified accused.