Criminals loot Rs 5 lakh from Ara petrol pump

Kumar Rajiv Nayan

Ara : Some unidentified armed miscreants looted Rs 5 lakh from a Petrol Pump under Ara Town police station in Bhojpur district on July 15, 2018, late evening and escaped.

SHO, Ara Town police station J P Singh, said that about half a dozen unidentified armed miscreants reached a Petrol Pump near village Singhai on July 15 late evening and made all its employees captive at pistol point after snatching their cellphones. The criminals also thrashed them and tried to damage the CCTV installed there. Later, they forcibly took the keys of locker and looted Rs 5 lakh kept in it and escaped unchallenged.

Owner of the Petrol Pump Dilip Kumar said that he has lodged a complaint in this connection with Ara Town police station while the district president, Petrol Pump Owners’ Association, Jitendra Singh threatened to launch an aggressive agitation if police failed to check rising crime against the traders and businessmen in Bhojpur district.