Burglars broke open the lockers of a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch in Modinagar and escaped with valuables kept in them, police said on Monday.
The burglars first bored a hole in the concrete boundary wall of the bank located at the Modi Cloth Mills in Ghaziabad district to get inside and then forced access to the locker area.
The crime, a police officer said, may have occurred on Saturday or Sunday when the bank was shut. The bank manager became aware of the robbery on Monday morning.
Police blamed the bank's poor security system for the crime.
"The bank lacks security measures. If an attempt was made to get into the bank from any side, a siren should have sounded. But the siren did not work," said Superintendent of Police S.N. Singh.
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