Sonipat: Robbers had dug a 125-feet long tunnel in Gohana township area of Sonipat of Haryana and looted Punjab National Bank.
Robbers break into bank’s strong room and loot cash and valuables worth crores of rupees.
The robbery was discovered on Monday morning and police said the gang committed the crime between Saturday night and early Monday.
The audacious robbery was one of the biggest in the country in recent times and matched the sensational Chelambra bank robbery in Malappuram district of Kerala in 2007.
Davinder Malik, branch manager of the bank said the robbers managed to break open 90 lockers out of 360 at the strong room.
The tunnel was dug from an abandoned building located across a lane of the Punjab National Bank branch at the old bus stand locality of the town.
The two rooms in the abandoned building were found filled with soil and concrete removed from the tunnel.
The robbers had also blocked the building’s windows with cardboard to hide their activities from the outside world.
Deputy Superintendent of Police of Gohana Rajeev Deshwal said that they were studying CCTV footage in the bank to indentify suspicious persons in the past few weeks.
Meanwhile bank didn’t install CCTV cameras inside strong rooms.
Bureau Report
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