A woman police officer was robbed of Rs 10 lakh in the daytime in Guwahati’s Kahilipara area on Friday.
According to sources, the incident occurred at a petroleum depot whilst the bike-borne miscreants snatched the bag packed with cash from the female police officer and sped away.
Guwahati Robbers suspected to be stalking
She had withdrawn the cash from a bank nearby moments ago. It is suspected that the miscreants were stalking her after which hatched a plan to rob her.
Similar incidents of robbery in Assam
Last month, a similar incident happened whilst a few miscreants looted Rs.5 lakh by breaking the glass of a Renault Duster parked outside a mall in Guwahati. He had additionally withdrawn the cash from a nearby bank moments ago.
In another incident on Wednesday, i.e, on October 9, police arrested persons named — Ganesh Das (36) of Billartarihat in Assam’s Barpeta district and Omar Ali (19) of Dhanmari in Darrang district – in reference to the case. A case under charges of residence trespass, obscene acts, wrongful confinement, attack or crook pressure to a female with motive to outrage her modesty, robbery or dacoity, with try and reason loss of life or grievous harm, voluntarily inflicting grievous harm through risky guns or way and try and homicide has been registered in opposition to the accused at Fatasil Ambari police station withinside the city. The sections of the Arms Act have additionally been slapped. “An investigation is underway. We will nab the main accused soon.”
