BHUBANESWAR: Two unidentified armed miscreants on Saturday shot at a trader of
the city and decamped with Rs 2.3 lakh from him who was going to deposit the
money in a bank. The trader was critically injured and he was shifted to a
private hospital in the city.
The trader Harish Prasad Rath (40),
a resident of Saheed Nagar area, is a distributor of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. He
works in Sachidananda Traders near Kali temple at Unit-6 in the city.
When he started his Innova car to
go to the bank, two bike-borne miscreants intercepted his vehicle at 10.45 am
in front of his office and started firing at him. At first they fired at Rath’s
right hand to get the money bag.
Rath received bullets in his chest
and fell unconscious on the spot. The miscreants managed to flee immediately
from there with the money bag when the public tried to come closer.
According to the security guard of
the office, the miscreants fled away with the money bag on a black colour bike which
had no number plate, he added. The Commissionerate Police reached the spot and
started investigation into the matter.
“We have recorded the statement of
the witnesses and investigating into the matter. Till now three names have come
up to our notice,” said Bhubaneswar DCP Nitinjit Singh.
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