Veggie vendor loses Rs 1.5L he withdrew for sis’s fee

Veggie vendor loses Rs 1.5L he withdrew for sis’s fee
By Pragna L Krupa

Bike-borne men diverted his attention by throwing currency notes on the road

A man, who had just withdrawn money from the bank to pay for his sister’s engineering college fee, received a costly blow from three bike-borne men, who distracted him and made away with Rs 1.5 lakh in cash.

The man, Narayan, a resident of Mahadevapura and a vegetable vendor, was riding back from the bank when three persons on two bikes told him that a few notes had fallen on the road from his bike. As he stopped to see if the money was indeed his, the persons fled with his bag that contained the money.

Narayan said he had gone to the bank to withdraw money to arrange for his sister’s college fee. He said, “I withdrew about Rs.1,47,000 from a bank in Devasandra and was heading back home. I had kept the cash inside a bag along with my sister’s SSLC marks card, cheque book, passbook and other identity cards, and hung the bag in front of my bike.

Around 3 pm, I had reached near Lakshmisagara Layout when the men on two bikes, told me that notes had fallen from my bike. I stopped my bike and saw that there were a few notes of 10s and 20s on the road. As I got down from the bike to see if it was mine, the three men took my bag and fled from the spot. I chased them for a few metres, but lost them in the traffic.”



Narayan said all the three men were wearing helmets. “Two were on a bike while one was on a scooter. The two riders distracted me while the pillion rider took my bag. I am not sure if they were following me from the bank or if they had just tried their luck. It all happened in just a few seconds and all our hard earned money was lost.”

A senior officer from the Mahadevapura police said that they examined the CCTV footage and are trying to trace the vehicles that don’t seem to belong to them.
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