KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Nov 17: Two bike-borne criminals decamped with allegedly Rs 45,000 at gunpoint from the cash-box of a restaurant located at Tank road under Sakchi thana area late last night.
The owner of the restaurant, Ali Akbar, was injured as one of the criminals had hit his head with the pistol butt while snatching away the cash.
In this connection, the police have started an investigation having received an FIR lodged by the owner of the Kolkata Alishan Biriyani Restaurant.
According to the FIR, two youths entered the restaurant at about 10.30 pm and asked for an egg roll. As the eatery had already stopped serving food at this hour in the night, the staff told the visitors so.
But one of the two came over to the cash counter where the owner Ali Akbar was counting the sale proceeds. The youth suddenly fished out a pistol and trained it at Akbar while asking to hand over the cash.
As Akbar tried to resist the move, the youth with the gun in his hand hit the victim’s head with the pistol butt and took away the cash from the cash box.
The two criminals had also threatened to shoot the hotel staff who too tried to prevent the criminal act.
Then only the restaurant owner had informed the police, leading a police party from the Sakchi thana to rush to the spot.
Akbar has claimed the criminals have taken away Rs 45,000, an amount the police had suspicion about.
The act of snatching away the cash from the restaurant’s cash box was covered in the CCTV footage in the surveillance cameras installed at the eatery. The police have taken out the footage and are trying to detect the identity of those who committed the crime.
OC, Sakchi thana, Rajesh Kumar Singh confirmed about snatching of the sale proceeds of the restaurant at gunpoint, but said the amount snatched as claimed by the restaurant owner is not true.
“We have on Wednesday morning got it verified whether the amount snatched was as it had been claimed by the restaurant owner. The amount snatched away is a little over Rs 20,000,” said the OC.
Speaking about the detection of the criminals, Singh said they are trying to trace out the duo on the basis of the CCTV footage.
