Vaishali SP Ravi Ranjan Kumar mentioned the criminals looted Rs 98 lakh round 11am. 4 miscreants are seen within the CCTV footage of the financial institution.
“Three of them had masks on their faces, whereas one was sporting a helmet. One footage has a transparent shot of the miscreants. They’d be recognized quickly. It’s a non-public financial institution so the guards have been unarmed. The police are scanning the CCTV footages within the space to hint their escape route. Huge vehicle-checking drive is being performed within the space. An SIT crew led by Sadar SDPO has additionally been constituted. The financial institution workers and the purchasers have been interrogated. Raids are being performed at suspicious locations,” he added.
Lalganj police station SHO Dhananjay Kumar mentioned as quickly because the department opened, 4-5 miscreants reached there on two bikes. “All of the financial institution workers have been busy with their works. The criminals reached the money counter and took everybody hostage at gunpoint. The miscreants took away the money from the locker and crammed it in a bag snatched from a buyer earlier than making good their escape on the 2 bikes. Two miscreants fled in the direction of Hajipur and the remaining two in the direction of Muzaffarpur. All the loot incident passed off inside 10 minutes,” he mentioned.