`1cr in cash, gold robbed from Kolhapur bank

KOLHAPUR: Cash and gold totalling over `1 crore was stolen from a cooperative bank in the early hours of Friday in Kolhapur, police said. The incident happened in the Kale village branch of Yashvant Cooperative Bank in the district’s Panhala taluka, a police official said. “The robbers used gas-cutters to remove iron bars of a window. They then disconnected the CCTV camera network and took away cash and gold which preliminary estimates suggest is cumulatively `1 crore. It possibly happened between midnight and 2am on Friday,” he said.