Jalandhar, Aug 30: Two employees of a private finance company here claimed that 10kg gold worth Rs 3 crore along with Rs 36,000 cash was taken away by armed robbers at gunpoint from their office on Monday afternoon.
However, senior police officials revealed that till late evening, the company could not produce any document which could substantiate its claims about the quantum of gold.
Around five to six armed robbers allegedly barged into the office of Manappuram Finance Limited in Rama Mandi on the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur road at 12.30 pm and they locked two employees Ankit and Naresh inside the bathroom, took away the keys and fled with the gold and cash.
Senior officials reached the spot after getting the information about the robbery and questioned the firm's employees sifting through their records.
"We are checking CCTV footage also. It appears that around half a dozen persons locked them inside the bathroom and took the valuables from the safes. But, till late evening the company officials have not been able to provide any entries in their own records which can show that they held such a huge quantity of gold with them," said deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Harjit Singh. He said the company office have not employed any security guard and their 'day book,' having record of daily entries, does not show cash more than Rs 2 lakh in a day.
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