Five bike-borne armed robbers on Thursday looted HDFC bank in Bihar's Hajipur in broad daylight and robbed Rs 1.19 crore from the Jaduha branch, according to a report by India Today.
The armed men entered the private bank in broad day light and threatened the employees to bring out the cash from cash room and eventually taking the money and fleeing from the spot.
The incident reportedly took place near the residence of Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai on Thursday morning.
According to the report, the police is inspecting the CCTV camera to ascertain the identity of the five miscreants as they were caught on camera carrying the sacks of cash as they left the bank.
Meanwhile, the borders of the state have been sealed and a manhunt is on, police added.
Watch the video of HDFC bank robbery:
Earlier, unidentified criminals gunned down Sunil Kumar, the brother of the former MP Ashwamedh Devi, in Samastipur district of Bihar. Kumar, the in-charge of a customer service point (CSP) of a nationalized bank, was murdered in broad daylight on Monday. The criminals looted more than Rs 5 lakh from Kumar and killed him around 1.30 pm near Jhakhra village under Sarairanjan police station area in the district.
