SBI driver decamps with Rs 19 lakh

Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 23:04 [IST]

Hoshangabad, MP, Nov 7 (UNI) A State Bank of India driver duped the bank's employees and decamped with Rs 19 lakh near this district headquarters today, the police said.

The bank's Baktara branch Senior Assistant Kamal Singh Chouhan and guard Ravishankar Mansauria were conveying the amount in a Maruti Omni to their branch from the branch here.

On National Highway 69, driver Shravan Kumar halted the vehicle feigning some fault and asked the duo to push the van. Soon after Chouhan and Mansauria alighted, Kumar sped off. Mansauria's 12-bore gun was in the vehicle.

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