Two miscreants in bike snatch Rs 7 lakh in broad daylight outside SBI New Silchar branch

One after another money snatching incident is happening in the city in a similar pattern. A Pulsar bike follows the person leaving the bank, chases him and snatches away the money.  None of them are ever caught so the perpetrators gain courage and the crime turns repetitive.

On Monday afternoon, a school teacher was robbed of seven lakh rupees by two miscreants who came on a black Pulsar bike. Despite filing an FIR to the police, no serious efforts were made to trace the criminals. Teacher Tirthajyoti Choudhury is emotionally broken after seeing so much money getting snatched infront of his eyes.

Elaborating on the incident, he said, “I have been trying to get a loan for a personal work of mine for a long time. In the end, State Bank of India agreed to give me a loan of seven and a half lakh rupees. However, the loan processing costed around  26,000 rupees and the bank allowed me to withdraw 7 lakh rupees on Monday afternoon.  After finishing the process, I was returning home in my bike with the money in my bag. As I was about to start the bike, I noticed that two boys were following me. They were able to pull out the money from the bag and fled. Seeing all my lifelong savings being snatched away infront of my eyes, I didn’t understand what to do. When I regained consciousness, I was sitting on the street like a destitute.”

Shortly after the incident, the family members lodged a complaint at Rangirkhari Police Station. Alongwith the money, all kinds of documents of Tirthajyoti Choudhury were kept in the bag. He deposited them for the bank loan and had kept it all carefully in the bag. Of course, it is thought that the miscreants will throw them away after taking the money. Police said similar incidents are happening again and again in the area and they are worried. However, despite being worried, they were not able to nab the criminals in any of the cases. There is no fear of law and order or police among the miscreants.

When contacted on Monday evening, Rangirkhari police officials said they had no information about any such snatching incident and no one had lodged an FIR. However, the person whose money was snatched reached the police station at 5 pm and filed an FIR. The behaviour of police in such a way is raising suspicions in the minds of the people.

Another angle of the incident is that when a person comes out of a bank with a large amount of money, the miscreants easily recognise the bag and snatch it.  So maybe there is some connection with the people inside the bank who inform them. If that is not the case, how can a criminal outside the bank know whether a person leaving the bank has a hefty sum of money in his bag or not? The bag might contain other articles, we always don’t keep money in our bags, some keep them in their purse. How can the criminals be able to identify what’s inside the bag when they don’t even step inside the bank to know the transactions that take place there?

Surely a person or a group of people inside the bank are involved in it who mediate with the criminals and inform them about the dealings that take place inside. The bank never answers such serious queries. Also the helpless and let-it-go attitude shown by the police is doing no good to ensure adequate safety of Silcharians. We have had all kinds of thefts, murders, gambling, snatching, sexual assualt taking place in broad daylight going on unabated with an equally inefficient administration good for nothing. If the common people do not wear masks, the police will count fines from them while the miscreants go on snatching money in broad daylight. A road worth riding only merits riders to be checked for their helmets. Similarly a society worth living, free of crimes only merits police to take fines from people.