Date:10/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/10/stories/2006051022890300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Two persons robbed of Rs. 6 lakh at gunpoint

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Armed men robbed two employees of a wholesale liquor depot of Rs. 6 lakh at gunpoint in Fraser Town police station limits on Monday afternoon.

Police said Manjunath and Vijay Kumar, cashiers of a wholesale liquor depot, were going to a bank on Wheelers Road to deposit Rs. 6 lakh in cash.

Around 2 p.m. two men, who came on a motorcycle, waylaid the two employees, who were riding a two-wheeler in Cook Town.

They pointed a pistol at the two and stabbed Vijay Kumar on the back and snatched a bag containing the cash and a cheque of Rs. 7 lakh, the police said.

The police suspect that the robbers had kept a close watch on the movements of the two employees before robbing them. The Fraser Town police have registered a case and are investigating.