Police put Rs 2.5-lakh reward on robber gang

"Police stations throughout the city are already searching for the suspects. We will proportion the pix with our counterparts in the districts and additionally the railway police," said an officer inside the detective branch. On the afternoon of April 7, the gang entered a 5-storey building on Kali Krishna Tagore Street and barged into the office of Devi Lal Sharma at the mezzanine ground. They took away Rs 14,forty eight,000 at gunpoint from an employee named Shyam Sharma and additionally assaulted him. In his declaration to the police, Shyam said 3 men had entered the workplace. Investigators suspect the opposite gang participants have been standing protect. The snap shots being utilized by the police to trace the group are screenshots from CCTV footage. A digital camera mounted at the doorway to the building, which homes the places of work of more than 30 buyers, caught the group coming into and exiting with the loot. Devi Lal, who deals in grapes from Nasik, now not operates from that office. "He opened his office on a few occasions most effective for the motive of the police investigation," said a trader who makes use of workplace area at the third ground. "We came to realize approximately the incident after the police entered the constructing at the evening of the incident." The Facebook publish titled "Wanted by way of Calcutta Police", states: "Anyone having facts about any of the above suspects may additionally contact us at the following telephone numbers and he/she shall be rewarded (with) a sum of Rs 50,000 for the sort of authentic information. The identification of the informant will be saved secret." The metropolis police had last introduced a reward of Rs 50,000 for information approximately suspects in a dacoity at Beniapukur in 2017. Dailyhunt http://yarp.com/3d9d0105f70b