Unidentified criminals looted Rs 1 lakh of cash from the wife of an IRB jawan Santosh Kumar Mehta on Tuesday in Daltonganj.
Giving this information SDPO SadarSandip Kumar Gupta said the IRB jawan Mehta and his wife were ona bike and when their bike reached the main gate of the SBI main branch his wife carrying a bag of one lakh of rupees started fetting down from the bikeand in fraction of minute the criminals took away her cash bag and fled.
Gupta said the police did try hard to give a chase but they disaapeared. Town police have registered the case he said. The IRB jawan is of Palamu but is posted in Chatradistrict. Gupta said the jawan was here in Daltonganj to have a land deal but when it did not come through he decided to deposit this cash in his account which is located in SBI Chatra.