Businessman Robs Bank In Bhubaneswar With ‘Toy Gun’

Bhubaneswar: A 25-year-old readymade clothes seller businessman robbed two banks of Rs 12 lakhs in Bhubaneswar, said police. The man used toy guns and took help from youtube videos to rob the banks. He has been arrested.

KNOW BUSINESSMAN’S HEIST IN MORE DETAIL

In a broad daylight heist, a gang of dacoits looted cash worth Rs 2.78 lakh at gunpoint from Indian Overseas Bank.

It was at Nandan Vihar under Infocity police limits on Monday.

According to sources, the dacoits wearing helmets barged into the bank in the afternoon.

Then looted the cash after threatening the two woman staffers at gunpoint.

On being informed, the Infocity police rushed to the bank and began an investigation after examining the CCTV footage.

Preliminary investigation has revealed that the dacoits had used a toy gun.

The accused has been identified as Soumya Ranjan Jena.

REASON FOR BUSINESSMAN JENA’S HEIST

At a pressure, Police Commissioner Sudhanshu Sarangi today informed that the accused had suffered huge losses during the lockdown.

Also, he committed the offence only to repay the loan which he had taken from banks.

The accused used a toy gun (air gun) to commit the crime after watching several videos on Youtube on how to loot banks, Sarangi informed.

The accused had allegedly looted nearly Rs 12 lakhs from from the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) near Infocity area on September 7 and the Bank of India’s (BOI) Barimunda branch in Mancheswar area on September 28.

Interestingly, Jena has accounts in both the banks and had taken loan of nearly Rs 19 lakhs and had an outstanding of Rs 6 lakhs.

According to Police, businessman Jena had completed his +2 in Commerce stream and had started a business by taking loans. Though he was doing a brisk business with a turnover of Rs 9 to 10 lakhs.

Unfortunately, his business was badly hit during the COVID-19 lockdown.

With no source of income, Jena started facing problems in repaying the loan amount. It was then when he decided to repay the loan by committing bank dacoity,

Later, the businessman chose the two banks where he had accounts, Sarangi said.

SARANGI’S STATEMENT OVER THE BUSINESSMAN’S HEIST

“It was completely a blank case as usually criminals from outside State are involved in such bank loot incidents. In both the incidents, there was only one accused who came in black dress, helmet, mask and gloves. Moreover, the accused was also communicating in Odia which is usually not in the cases when criminals from outside the State are involved in such crime incidents,” said Sarangi.

Sarangi further informed that out of the Rs 12.34 lakh which was robbed from both the banks, nearly Rs 10 lakh has been recovered from the businessman.

“The accused had repaid only Rs 60,000 to the banks against the loan amount to avoid suspicion,” the Police Commissioner added.

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