Five motorcycle-borne robbers allegedly waylaid a car carrying bank cash and looted Rs. 7 lakh near Dhobha village under Kheri Town police station this morning, police said.
The incident happened at around 11 AM when manger of Allahabad Bank, Mandakini Gupta, and a cashier, Sanjiv Verma, were on their way to Amirtaganj branch with the cash they had collected from the bank's district head office in Lakhimpur, police said.
Five miscreants riding two motorbikes, intercepted the car and broke the window panes with some blunt object.
Despite Gupta's protest they lifted the cash bag and fled, police added.
SP Arvind Chaurasia, additional superintendent of police AP Singh and deputy superintendent of police Martand Prakash Singh rushed to the scene for probe.
DSP Martand Singh said the district's entry and exit points have been sealed and intensive checking drive was on to track down the accused.
