Kol-style gold firm loot bid in Hooghly

Chandernagore/Kolkata: Four armed men tried to rob a branch of a private gold loan firm in Hooghly’s Chandernagore at 3pm on Tuesday. Chandernagore Police managed to nab two from Chinsurah within hours. A third one has been detained.
A Kolkata Police detective department team led by an ACP is in Hooghly to question the accused as their “modus operandi is similar” to the ones used last week at Jorasanko and Bowbazar and they look “similar to the men wanted in Kolkata”.Sources claimed the accused could have their roots in either Bihar or Jharkhand.
According to Chandernagore Police, the accused targeted the Laxmiganj Bazar branch located on GT Road on a day the rest of the market is usually shut. “They tied up one security staffer. One of the employees managed to use the alarm to alert the police. It was then that the accused started firing at the security,” claimed a witness. Police said the firing injured at least two employees of the firm.
Seconds into the firing, a huge police force reached the spot but the accused fired at the cops too. Even as police opened retaliatory fire, the accused fled using the rooftop. Police immediately sealed the entire stretch between Chinsurah and Uttarpara and as many as 45 nakas were activated. The cops even stopped ferry services from Uttarpara to Mogra. They got the results within a couple of hours when they nabbed two of the accused.
Chandernagore commissioner Arnab Ghosh said : “The bank authority lodged a complaint where they alleged that four miscreants entered the bank and looted Rs 1.5 lakh in cash. They also snatched a gold chain from an employee. We had set up 45 nakas three months ago and on Tuesday they helped us to arrest the accused quickly.”