Security review: Cops, bankers’ meet held in city

BHUBANESWAR: Twin City Police Commissioner Dr RP Sharma on Tuesday met senior bankers of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack to review security for banks and ATMs. The meeting was held in the backdrop of the robbers looting cash from banks recently.

Sources said the bankers expressed concern over the recent dacoits that took place in Bhubaneswar and Khordha. The cops discussed about the measures to prevent loots from ATMs and heist during transportation of cash from banks.

Notably, three bike-borne looters had snatched Rs 17 lakh from an accountant of a private hospital at Damana Square in the city in broad daylight recently. On the same day, armed goons fired on a cash van of a nationalised bank, injured its two guards and fled with Rs 60 lakh near Biribadi under Tangi police limits in Khurda.