Assam Police official held on charge of looting bank money
Kamrup (Rural) district police had arrested the Officer-in-Charge of Rongia police station Bhupen Chandra Das on the charge of conspiracy of looting Rs 19 lakhs of a private bank banch in Nalbari district.
A top police official said that Bhupen Chandra Das executed the plot of looting the money, while the money taken from the bank branch of Nalbari to its ATM at Baihata Chariali on NH-31 near Moranjana on Oct 20 along with Paban Barman, security guard of a money transporting agency, another employee of the agency Taijuddin Ahmed, his brother Prasur Ali and Iftikar Saikia.
“The gang had looted the money by using a vehicle owned by Iftikar Saikia,” the official said.
On Oct 25, police had arrested one of the kingpin of the robbery Iftikar and recovered the vehicle which used in the robbery.
On Monday, a local court had sent the Officer-in-Charge of Rongia police station to 14 days police custody.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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