INR 80 lakh stolen from cash van in Dimapur

Dimapur, July 19 (EMN): Unidentified persons have stolen INR 80 lakh from a cash van parked outside the main branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) in Dimapur on Thur. July 19 at around 11 am. According to police and SBI sources, when the cash attendants and the driver of the cash van were loading the money into the van, which was to be deposited in the ATM after the money was drawn from the bank, an unidentified person or possibly more than one person approached them claiming that there were a few currency notes on the road which the cash handlers may have dropped. As per the version of the attendants to the police, they got distracted by the claim, during which the person(s) escaped with the money. Four persons have been detained in this connection and investigation is on, the police said.