Police are on the look out for a driver of an ATM cash management firm who has fled with Rs 86 lakh meant for ATM kiosks of a nationalised bank.
The police said the accused, Raj Sardar, 35, sped with the cash in the vehicle on Wednesday around 4.30pm when an employee of the firm was busy filling cash at a kiosk of Punjab National Bank in Atpur area of Jagaddal and a security guard was guarding the ATM.
An official of the firm said that the team was carrying around Rs 90 lakh to refill cash at ATM kiosks of which Rs 4 lakh was taken by the cash custodian to load. Sardar fled with the balance amount of Rs 86 lakh.
An eyewitness said: “The security guard tried to chase the van but in vain. The vehicle sped fast towards Naihati.”
The police on Thursday morning traced the vehicle, a Maruti Eeco van, in Bijpur, around 25km from the ATM kiosk where it was last seen, and found the empty cash trunk. Ajay Kumar Thakur, DC, (Zone 1) of Barrackpore commissionerate said hunt was on for Sardar.
