Man robbed of Rs five lakh in Pink City

Two persons, riding a motorcycle, snatched a bag containing Rs 5. 20 lakh from a man in broad daylight here today, the second such incident in the city in as many days.

The duo sped away after robbing Ashok Sharma who had withdrawn the money minutes earlier from a bank located in Subash Marg, police said.

As Sharma came out of the bank, the motorcycle-borne assailants pushed him aside, snatched the bag and sped away, they said.

A hunt had been launched to apprehend them, police said.

In a similar incident yesterday, a man was robbed of Rs six lakh near a bank in Vaishali Nagar area, police said.