BHUBANESWAR: Three bike-borne robbers struck in the heart of the city and snatched Rs 12 lakh at gunpoint from an accountant of a automobile showroom here on Wednesday noon, when security is beefed up across the city for Republic Day. Intercepting the car, they smashed the windows and robbed the accountant and fled. Their bike did not bear any registration number and such was their audacity, the trio did not even wear helmets to escape identification, throwing a challenge at the police. It happened at about 12.30 pm when Prabhat Sahoo, the accountant of Mancheswar-based Swapna Motors was on his way to Bapuji Nagar to deposit the cash. The car was approaching the road that passes just behind the Telecom Training Centre when the trip intercepted it. Locals said one of the robbers first smashed the right window when the driver took the car on back gear and moved in the opposite direction. However, the bikers encircled it and this time, they came to the left side and smashed the window where the accountant Sahoo was seated. Pointing a gun at him, they snatched the cash bag and sped away. The trio drove a Black Pulsar bike. Why the car showroom staff preferred the circuitous road, which has railway level- crossings en route, instead of taking the straight and busy road from Rasulgarh towards Kalpana Square was not known. Both Sahoo and the driver had joined Swapna Motors only a month and a half back. “We are looking into all angles and all possible clues,” Bhubaneswar DCP Nitinjit Singh said. Police were trying to piece together the whole story and check the veracity since a similar robbery had come to light a few days back and it turned out to be a cook-up later. The entire loot amount was recovered from their possession. The role of insiders is not ruled out since information on movement of cash had to come from the office itself, an official said.
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