A 30-year-old man was allegedly robbed of ₹40 lakh by a man who the victim said was wearing khaki clothes, the police said on Sunday. The victim said the accused fled with a bag containing cash after threatening him.
The victim, Thakor Ajit, works at a shop in Naya Bazar, they said.
In his complaint, Ajit stated that on September 25, his boss had asked him and his colleague Rakesh to go to Barakhamba road and collect some items from a contact person in a building at Helly road, the police said. When the two reached there, they were handed over three bags by the contact person. When Ajit opened one of the bags, he found 80 bundles of ₹500 notes amounting to approximately ₹40 lakh, a senior police officer said.
The contact person told Ajit to not count the notes there and leave the spot immediately, after which Ajit and Rakesh left the building and took an auto for Fatehpuri, the officer said.
‘A bearded man’
When they reached near Chatta Rail red light, they saw a car being driven towards them. A “bearded man who was wearing khaki clothes” signalled them to stop and asked them what was there inside the bags, the official added.
The man, the victim said, asked the auto driver to park the vehicle on the side of the road as he wanted to check the bags. Meanwhile, Rakesh fled with one of the bags, the official said.
When the accused found out that the other bag had cash inside it, he forced the victim to sit inside his car. He also snatched the victim’s phone and after crossing Hanuman Mandir flyover, the accused threw Ajit’s phone and asked him to get down from the car and sped off towards ISBT Kashmere Gate, the police said.
A case has been registered and efforts are being made to trace the accused, they added.
