The Tribune, January 29, 2002

4 youths loot Rs 13 lakh from petrol station
Our Correspondent

Rewari, January 28
Four car-borne armed youths looted Rs 13.39 lakh from a petrol station of the Indian Oil Corporation at the National Highway No 8, about 3 km from Bawal, this morning.

The youths were travelling in an Indica car and reportedly came from the Jaipur side. They intercepted an employee of the petrol station when he was coming out of the petrol station with a bag containing Rs 13.92 lakh, which was to be deposited in a bank at Bawal. They fired several shots from their revolvers and a shot hit Mr Bhagwan Das Gupta, manager of the petrol station, in the stomach. Mr Gupta has been admitted to a hospital at Bawal, where he was stated to be out of danger.

Other employees of the petrol station tried to foil the robbery and in the process currency notes of Rs 53,000 fell out of the bag. However, the youths managed to decamp with the bag containing Rs 13.39 lakh.

The robbers sped away towards Delhi and after covering a distance of about 10 km they abandoned the car near Kathuwar village. They then drove towards Delhi in a Maruti car. The police has seized the abandoned Indica car. A case of robbery has been registered.