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Wednesday, December 30, 1998
Former bank employee's involvement suspected
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, December 29: The police are suspecting the involvement of a bank employee who left the bank last month in yesterday's daylight robbery of a Punjab and Sind Bank in Najafgarh, according to sources. Describing the robbers, Additional DCP (southwest) R.P. Upadhyaya said that all of them spoke plain Hindi and that the police are checking the theory of the involvement of a local. ``One thing is for sure, that they were well-versed with the area. The fact, that the entire operation took place so quickly and smoothly, shows that they were very well-planned and knew exactly what was to be done,'' he said.``The five youths, however, don't have any criminal record in the area,'' he added. ``The 33-odd witnesses to the incident could not identify the five robbers in the dossiers available with the district police, therefore we're getting their sketches made according to their description.'' he said. The robbers were not wearing any masks during the robbery. The police have not been able to lift fingerprints from the scene of the crime because the robbers did not touch anything apart from the money that had slipped out of their bag in a hurry to escape after the alarms went off. Their only chance to lift fingerprints on the wads that had slipped from their bag was also lost as the bank had already mixed those wads with the rest of the money. The robbers had left behind 17 wads of 50 rupee notes as the one carrying the money tripped at the door, in the rush to flee. The police have also not been able to trace the cola-coloured Maruti Esteem car in which the robbers managed to escape. According to Upadhyaya, the robbers were given a chase till Kakrola on the Uttam Nagar-Najafgarh Road, where the police lost them. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

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