Miscreants loot Rs 6 lakh from retired policeman

Miscreants looted Rs 6 lakh from a retired policeman in Bihar's Rohtas district Monday, police said.

Dehri-On-Sone police station SHO Dharmendra Kumar said the incident occurred when retired havildar Baban Singh was going to Sasaram, the headquarters town of Rohtas district, after withdrawing Rs 6 lakh from a bank branch in Dehri town.

As soon as Singh came out of the bank branch, two bike borne miscreants suddenly appeared from nowhere and pushed Singh who fell on the ground and decamped with the bag containing cash of Rs 6 lakh.

Singh, a resident of Rajpur village under Husainabad police station, has lodged an FIR in this regard, the SHO said adding that police are trying to identify the miscreants on the basis of CCTV footage.