4 robbers loot Rs 80,000 from Kharar fuel station

Tribune News Service

Mohali, July 4

Four miscreants looted around Rs80,000 and a mobile phone at gunpoint from two employees of a filling station on the Kurali road in Kharar here late last night.

The incident took place around 2.15 am when two pistol-totting men barged into the office of Bheem filling station near Sahauran village and fired one round before looting cash from the employees.

The police have recovered the empty shell of a round.

Cops said the vehicle was bearing a Punjab taxi registration number.

Kharar DSP Rupinderdeep Kaur said, “We are scanning the CCTV footage. The robbers will be arrested soon.”

On the statement of Amit Kumar, an employee, a case under Section 307, 392 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and the Arms Act was registered at the Sadar Kharar police station today.